To be fair it takes a ton of memorization to be productive in a Rails codebase, between lack of static types and tons of runtime "magic". Requiring Ruby experie

To be fair it takes a ton of memorization to be productive in a Rails codebase, between lack of static types and tons of runtime "magic". Requiring Ruby experience is silly if you've managed to write in several languages productively already—Rails experience, though, I could see requiring that. Recent Rails experience, even. Which is part of why I've pretty much sworn it off forever, after working on several Rails projects over the years. I never, ever want to onboard to a Rails project again, if I can help it.