I feel like you can tell a good rails developer by finding who thought it was hard to learn. There really is a lot you need to know under the magic, and if you

I feel like you can tell a good rails developer by finding who thought it was hard to learn. There really is a lot you need to know under the magic, and if you can learn to create compatible magic in your own code the framework becomes incredibly extensible. My Rails projects have always been the ones that felt the most done on their initial release. That extra time not typing and configuring goes into caching, validation, UX, and making nice solutions to project specific problems that fit nicely and don't become pain points as time goes on. All these things that can feel shortchanged in other projects get more of the polish they need sooner.