As a person who loves Ruby, I would 100% avoid rails at every juncture. If you want to write business software or "get things done", rails can help you to do t

As a person who loves Ruby, I would 100% avoid rails at every juncture. If you want to write business software or "get things done", rails can help you to do things in the rails way. However, I dont think its good to have a very VERY large set of conventions; you spend most of your time learning those and dont really spend your time solving problems in a way that teaches you about how to think about computing.