This is an awesome resource: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
Yes, CPAN has a wealth of information...now it only it was presented like this or our frameworks had something this good.
CPAN isn't limited by anything and thus can express pretty much everything, as in, win most of the times.
And Rails... err, wait, isn't that just a framework, not a programming language with thousands of libraries providing extreme flexibility and strength?
If Perl didn't suck so badly at marketing (damn, yes, i mean it!) we probably would have someone coming up with a clear vision, ready to change the reality just because of the possible attractiveness.
Well, so much for the reality