From Python to Ruby: Mind Blown by Rails, the Framework

Week Two of Ruby on Rails: The Incredible Power of Rails

From Python to Ruby: Mind Blown by Rails, the Framework

I have now hit my first "wow" moment with Rails, where I actually understood why it has the following it does. It has raised some questions for me about the pedagogy of Rails, but that is not the language's fault; it is a question for the community. Rails is fast . Mind-blowingly fast. From my cursory looks at the framework, it is immediately apparent that this was designed from the ground up to give me everything I'm going to inevitably want in a basic web application. And yet, for some reason, it isn't immediately sold that way. It's instead sold with stuff like... "I'm not even joking when I say this, but I think some of the resources out there make it intentionally hard for non-technical people to start learning." The above line was from a class on Rails - not a Ruby class, but a Rails class. The class was designed so that you could have no coding experience whatsoever...

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