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Nice piece of marketing dressed as troll-bait. 10 points.

So there DO is a TheOnion for coders!

I'm not sure if this is meant for absolutely complete beginners, or if it's tongue-in-cheek.

#5, #4, #2 are general ignorance of Unix-like systems. (being unaware of password prompts of obscuring input, or in more technical terms setting /dev/tty to raw... really?)

#3: "But the one thing you can't write in the text editor? Unix commands!" To be pedantic, that's shell scripting.

#1 is basically a build-up for an ad.

In all cases, little of this is directly related to Rails.

They may not all be 'related to Rails'. But we keep a list of the top reasons our students have... and these are 5 of them that are worth knowing about for beginners.

Absolute beginners, yes.

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