Also 31, also coding since ~15, and also had trouble wrapping my head around Rails. For me I think it was mainly because with Rails, the implicit conventions a

Also 31, also coding since ~15, and also had trouble wrapping my head around Rails. For me I think it was mainly because with Rails, the implicit conventions are actually hidden rules, and they're not always intuitive either, which made memorizing them much harder than, say, memorizing a small set of simple functions in an actual library. That's probably also why I have so much trouble with CSS I'm guessing. These days I maintain a Clojure web app that uses Compojure, and I have to say it's significantly easier to reason about than the iceberg Rails is.