I 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

I 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...