Looking at Scala (and then play)

Decided to have a look at Scala, after reading about the inventor of Groovy's high praise of it.

Found a decent quick tutorial
http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaTutorial.pdf

From there I want to move on to the play framework

Grails Documentation

I find the best grails documentation is always

http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/introduction.html

And you can look at specific version just by dropping in the version number instead of 'latest'

For instance for Grails 2.0.4

http://grails.org/doc/2.0.4/guide/introduction.html

Looking at Ruby

Having become a bit disheartened at the lack of Grails/Groovy jobs in my area, I decide to have a little look at Ruby.
So far it is pretty depressing, the tutorials generally do not work or are horribly outdated.

One that did seem to work so far was:

http://andreapavoni.com/blog/2013/8/a-rails-4-tutorial-application-for-beginners

Obviously I can see the similarities between Grails & Rails. But I have to say thus far I am unimpressed by Rails. It seems far clumsier, with rake, db:migrates, bundles, etc. Even the console is horrible inferior.
Of course this is just my opinion after 2 hours.

Grails just feels more elegant and for sure was easier to get started. I really like the Grails GORM, as opposed to the Rails db script creation and then creating the classes manually. A relationship between two objects in the database is one line in Grails.

The main stumbling blocks I had with Grails in the early days was plugins, which I feel has been largely addressed now.
Ruby uses Gems which seem quite similar in nature to plugins.