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It took me a long time to learn rails, it's very magical and makes many decisions for you. If you constantly find yourself disagreeing or fighting these decisio

It took me a long time to learn rails, it's very magical and makes many decisions for you. If you constantly find yourself disagreeing or fighting these decisions, rails will never be fun. Maybe this is why so many people are against it, but I loved having a framework teach me about why it made these decisions. To me, nothing comes close to vanilla rails app, after you learn where and when to apply certain patterns it's extremely productive and fun to use. You can get so much farther than you probably think if you haven't used it in a while.

herbst 8y ago
When I first looked into Rails I ended up learning Ruby because it was so fun but Rails was overwhelming. After I got Ruby I found sinatra and my fascination to use Ruby for the Web was finally born. After that I discovered Padrino. Essentially sinatra packed with a ORM and backend. When I then looked into Rails again (years later) everything felt so natural and right suddenly. However beginner documentation also got a lot better so this was surely part of it.