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I had a hard time understand how Rails works under the hood by reading the source. No such issue when reading Django source code. Rails magic is really powerful and I got overwhelmed. Maybe its just my Ruby-fu is not strong.

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I get the feeling its not your Ruby-fu, but Rails is a lot like trying to jump into the show Supernatural in Season 10. I did some Rails sites early, and now have very little clue what's going on when I read new code. I'm sure I could get it, but its going to be a time investment. This seems to be the way of opinionated frameworks.

It's been awhile since I looked at either but I remember as a beginner I had trouble parsing both the Django source and the Rails source. The rails source was the hardest because I didn't understand ruby and the Django source was hard because I didn't understand python.

I feel like people really forget what it's like to be a beginner when they say "read the source".

"Oh, if you are a beginner, you should work on documentation!"

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