That's called throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There might be a few issues when your newbie & want to kickstart a rails app, but they're easily overco

That's called throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There might be a few issues when your newbie & want to kickstart a rails app, but they're easily overcome with a good template.rb (the later being as small as possible, many of them are bloated). Also I find the Rails 3.0 bashing cheap and unfair since it's a huge step forward in terms of robustness, modularity & coherence. But yes I agree the fine tuning you need to get your quicky rails app up & running with your special flavor (eg: rspec, haml, inherited_resources etc) should be better advertised & explained. I also spend more time on js nowadays but with backbone.js, throwing out the legacy of rails on the server seems a huge waste of time at this stage.