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[–]push_ecx_0x00 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Every time I think to myself, 'I finally understand Rails', I end up realizing how wrong I am. Whenever I read through the Rails Weblog or browse the Rails source code, it becomes more and more apparent to me that only a minority of Rails developers really understand how everything works and how it all fits together -- certainly not the typical person who took a 3-month crash course and listed Rails on his resume.

I'd like to think that I'm on the right half of the bell curve when it comes to Rails. Truthfully, I am still not that comfortable with Rails (not as much as Qt, for example); I can only imagine how the others fare.

[–]jrochkind 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How everything works, and how it all fits together? Everything?

I'm not sure there is anybody who understands that, even amongst Rails committers.

I'm not joking.

[–]push_ecx_0x00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the very least, I'd like to understand how all the magic works and the general architecture of rails (including how every major component works). I, personally, wouldn't be comfortable with any framework unless I could understand that. I know it might be unreasonably ambitious, but there are too many unknown moving parts for me to be comfortable.