If you have strong opinions on how things should be done with a web framework, I would suggest, for the sake of sanity, to purposefully learn Rails with an open

If you have strong opinions on how things should be done with a web framework, I would suggest, for the sake of sanity, to purposefully learn Rails with an open mind and just let it do what it wants to do. When you learn it that way, it doesn't take long to figure out.