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Discussion on: Why do people like Ruby?

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Thai Tran

New learner here. Been a Java developer for more than 10 years along with several projects with Python, Golang, Coffeescript/Typescript/Javascript (Nodejs) as well, I thought I hated Javascript relatives the most until I had a task to maintain a fairly big codebase of Ruby on Rails now. To be honest, I can not be productive in just 1 or 2 days, and also, I can not just go to the project, hack around and then do the task like Go. I have to understand Ruby first, which has a super weird syntax for me now because Ruby syntax is totally different from all the things I knew, so the learning gap for me is high (:symbol, "string".freeze, ....). Then after that, I have to learn the magic of Rails, where params/session out of nowhere suddenly can be used, where the "a_b_path" actually indicates that it will call a rendering function from some files.

Yes, I know that if I have time, eventually I will like it, love it, and cannot live without it, but now I don't have that precious time, even right now I have the biased frustrated feeling about learning it as well (sigh)

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UMR • Edited

My boss also forced me to jump into rails without any prior knowledge including ruby. It is so confusing and I don't like the implicity of rails at all.