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Why I hate Rails

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The author lost me at complaining that you need to know Ruby to know Rails. In case this was not self-evident, the Rails guide itself says plainly and early:

"If you have no prior experience with Ruby, you will find a very steep learning curve diving straight into Rails." http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#guide-ass...

Where did anyone hear and/or read otherwise? Similarly with all the other complaints. To me, they sound like straw men.

The author lost me when he said "I'm not a programmer."

He lost me at "hate Rails"

He lost me at the blogspot subdomain.

I bought a how-to-play-guitar DVD but I still can't get a gig! I even practiced every night for a month, man this sucks!

Sorry, whoever told you that learning Rails was easy was lying. I don't know a single experienced Ruby / Rails dev that would say Rails is 'beginner' friendly. In fact, most of them would probably tell you that you should first be experienced in other languages / frameworks.

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...

While the author claims not to be a programmer, reading the article it is pretty clear he is not a beginner but a professional developer who doesn't have degree, much like half population of developers.

On the main page of RoR, this sentence could be understand as 'RoR is good for beginner': “Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming."

I would argue that rails is productive, but not easy if you are unfamiliar with its decisions/concepts.

"Why I hate earning a living" ... because they expect me to work!

"Why I hate doing a marathon" ... because I have to run!

"Why I hate eating food" ... because I have to cook!

Seriously, this guy should find something better to do with his time. If he could be bothered.

The great thing about natural selection is it filters people like this out :)

You think so but no :)

This website is completely unusable on my tablet.

This is just the default "dynamic views" theme for Blogger. And it's also unusable on my (android) phone. Bizarre that Google hasn't fixed any of the glaring issues.

Works fine in Chrome on my 4.2 android phone.

Hasn't this been on the HN frontpage recently?

I'm sure I saw it a couple of days ago...

Yes it was. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5303381

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