>Building your own Ruby web application from scratch however isn’t only educational—I’d argue that it’s also a rite of passage in a Ruby and Rails developer’s c

>Building your own Ruby web application from scratch however isn’t only educational—I’d argue that it’s also a rite of passage in a Ruby and Rails developer’s career! >Just kidding. Well, perhaps it should be? It's a pet-project level of software alright, and it's got a million issues; but I'd argue that dealing with HTTP and HTML at the lowest level is the best way to internalise the foundations of web development.