You're right about that. But people shouldn't be learning rails from online tutorials, they should be reading Active Web Development with Rails which has clear

You're right about that. But people shouldn't be learning rails from online tutorials, they should be reading Active Web Development with Rails which has clear instructions. Learning new languages from random online tutorials is always going to be confusing because stuff on the net is either too cutting edge or too disorganized, no matter what language you're using (yes, even PHP).