Ct. Dancer, my friend just got the Ruby Elite with the SRAM compact double Apex. She's a newish rider, averages about 12 or 11 mph, after riding a Vita with a triple. We encouraged her to get a triple, but the Elite wasn't available with that option. Bottom line is, she loves it. She got the mountain gearing on the rear, so I think it's an 11-36. She said the regular Apex was OK for the test ride, but we live in a hilly area and she needed to have the same gears as a triple, so she bought the different cassette for the LBS to put on, and she sold the original one on E Bay. She's a very slow climber, but she does get up everything with these gears.
Her bike is gorgeous (see my above post).