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> Frustratingly, the instructors were very unhelpful at the stuff I needed help with the most -- forming a mental model of how and why Rails works. I suspect t
by xapata 10y ago
> Frustratingly, the instructors were very unhelpful at the stuff I needed help with the most -- forming a mental model of how and why Rails works.
I suspect that's because they didn't know how or why.
Rails has a lot of magic -- just follow the convention and it works. Magic can be good, because it encourages a standard. Unfortunately, many Rails programmers seem comfortable leaving the magic as a mystery rather than learning how it works and why it was designed as it is.
- busterarm 10y agoMy first attempt or two learning Rails ended up this way, but I really got it once I had SQL down. In a/A we built our own stripped down, minimal versions of ActiveRecord and Rails. This ended up connecting all of the dots for me.
- xapata 10y agoWhat is "a/A"?
- davidlakata 10y agoApp Academy: http://www.appacademy.io/ http://www.appacademy.io/
- eonw 10y agothis has always been my largest gripe about ruby, i like to understand the magic. frustrating when i cant.
- largote 10y agoMagic is great, until it stops working and you have to figure out why.
- steve19 10y agofor that we have stackoverflow