Rails was one if not the first opinionated framework. If you follow its design philosophy, it is much easier to work with. If you fight it, you are in a world

Rails was one if not the first opinionated framework. If you follow its design philosophy, it is much easier to work with. If you fight it, you are in a world of pain and that's even much worse if you don't the design choices they have made in Rails. Having said that, if you jump into Rails the whole project structure will start to make sense after a while. I completely agree on your impression of Ruby vs Rails.