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Sorry, whoever told you that learning Rails was easy was lying. I don't know a single experienced Ruby / Rails dev that would say Rails is 'beginner' friendly.
by johnernaut 14y ago
Sorry, whoever told you that learning Rails was easy was lying. I don't know a single experienced Ruby / Rails dev that would say Rails is 'beginner' friendly. In fact, most of them would probably tell you that you should first be experienced in other languages / frameworks.
- herval 14y agoI work with Rails for the last 8 years, and I can say it's somewhat 'beginner friendly'. At least based on the juniors/"non-developers" I taught it to (at this very moment, I'm mentoring a jr dev with C# background who was having a really hard time trying to learn a simple Python framework, and is finding Rails 'the most obvious thing in the galaxy'). The fact that a lot of things on it are conventions helps The extra layers that were added recently, such as Coffeescript, SCSS and the whole asset pipeline thing really add a bit to the complexity, but still, it's all there...
- craigvn 14y agoWhile the author claims not to be a programmer, reading the article it is pretty clear he is not a beginner but a professional developer who doesn't have degree, much like half population of developers.
- olivier1664 14y agoOn the main page of RoR, this sentence could be understand as 'RoR is good for beginner': “Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming."