Ruby is murderer

Why can such a low-level language be so badly slow? I can't comprehend it

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That and the fact that Rails is mostly documented in screencasts (and fucking http://railsforzombies.org/) is why I gave up on Ruby entirely. The community is worse than useless, and it makes it nigh impossible to get anything done.
And that's a damn shame, because it's actually a pretty okay language.