I've only used middleman, but it's definitely a inversion of control framework. Your code will somehow magically get invoked, and there's a lot of stuff going on under the hood. In statis, you create your own plain Ring app and invoke some functions, so it's more clear what happens where and why.
This is great. I like that it includes code highlighting in the example. You know your audience :)
I have a rails app for my blog and I've been looking to move over to a static site recently. This would be a great excuse to use Clojure, which I rarely get to do.
