When I first learned ruby, it was my first dynamic language I ever fully experienced. I never found the poetry mode to be an issue, and in fact the community wa

When I first learned ruby, it was my first dynamic language I ever fully experienced. I never found the poetry mode to be an issue, and in fact the community was so new and vibrant, they made it very clear to me what was going on. I believe every ruby tutorial I have ever seen made it very clear what was going on. as far as the hash, you can always inspect the actual arguments being passed, which doubles as a nice learning exercise for beginners.