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0 pointsxapata9y ago0 comments

> Frustratingly, the instructors were very unhelpful at the stuff I needed help with the most -- forming a mental model of how and why Rails works.

I suspect that's because they didn't know how or why.

Rails has a lot of magic -- just follow the convention and it works. Magic can be good, because it encourages a standard. Unfortunately, many Rails programmers seem comfortable leaving the magic as a mystery rather than learning how it works and why it was designed as it is.

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largote9y ago

Magic is great, until it stops working and you have to figure out why.

steve199y ago

for that we have stackoverflow

busterarm9y ago

My first attempt or two learning Rails ended up this way, but I really got it once I had SQL down. In a/A we built our own stripped down, minimal versions of ActiveRecord and Rails. This ended up connecting all of the dots for me.

xapataOP9y ago

What is "a/A"?

davidlakata9y ago

App Academy: http://www.appacademy.io/

eonw9y ago

this has always been my largest gripe about ruby, i like to understand the magic. frustrating when i cant.

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