It's mostly the "magical" parts like before/after hooks.
I dislike a lot of the "magic" in Rails, but don't find before/after hooks very "magical" at all.
I guess when you get into inheritance perhaps. When you have an inheritance chain, which hooks are firing and in which order? That gets confusing fast. But, that also doesn't feel Rails-specific at all to me.
Rails gives you some ways to shoot yourself in the foot, but what language/framework doesn't?
When you are tracing a bug and are trying to do step-by
-step debugging, it has been hell.
I don't find this too much of an issue. It may be primitive but I just rely on debug output statements.
I have an expansion set up in my text editor that spits out `Rails.logger.debug("[jbootz] ")` and then I just do `tail -f log/development.log | grep jbootz`. I also have iTerm set up to highlight any lines containing "jbootz", so it stands out when it's mingled in with other output. (I just picked "jbootz" as it's a unique string)
In general that's the strategy for Rails debugging or really any dynamic language where the editor/IDE can't reason about the code like it can with a static language.... lots of debug output and then get a little creative with how you filter it in your terminal.
Helps to use an terminal app like iTerm that lets you use split panes so you can look at multiple filtered views of your log output at once if you like.
Quickly jumping to definitions? Even RubyMine can't do it.
Yeah. I used to work in C# + Visual Studio + Resharper and oohhhhh boy, I often miss being able to lean heavily on the IDE/compiler.
Still, as far as definitions go? I don't know. I just grep for "def foo" (if I don't know what file it's in) or use my editor to jump right to the file where it exists (if I know where it is, which is usually the case)
Not as slick as the editor/IDE actually being smart, but I don't really find it to be a friction point.
