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That really mirrors my experience as well. Ruby is a very consistent language but I think one of the things people get really enamored with Ruby is the meta programming -- myself included and soon you're going to need a bunch of context in your head to understand all the "magic" that's happening.

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I feel this comment so much. Having never done Ruby programming and was given a task from a client to work on a Ruby project. I didn't think much at the time because having dealt with all kinds of programming challenges I was confident in taking it on. Much to my surprise the amount of "magic" methods, meta-programming and anonymous classes in the source code required a lot of hand holding from the devs who had been working on it from the start to teach me how to find/read and debug everything the "Ruby" way.

> required a lot of hand holding from the devs who had been working on it from the start to teach me how to find/read and debug everything the "Ruby" way.

Yes. And even just _finding_ relevant bits of code is difficult and painful, because you can't simply `grep` for the names of these metaprogrammed methods. They're simply not in the codebase.

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