Why I Hate Rails - After six months you’ll be lucky if you have this

You could exchange Rails for any technology stack you don't currently know and generate this same rant.

If you don't know html, css, and javascript and you want to write a web application... you're going to have a bad time.

I was going to suggest PHP/MySQL but a similar argument applies.

Those gems sound cool by the way - any analogs in PHP?

I've just completed BerkeleyX CS169.1x (Software as a Service)[1] that teaches Rails and I haven't found it to be painful at all. I'm sure that I'm no expert, but I am competent enough to be building a Rails app of my own that utilizes most of the concepts in the OP. The best way to learn it (IMHO) is to just jump in and do a project, learning as you go. I can see how learning web development from scratch with Rails could be challenging, but that could be said for any web stack.

[1] https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/CS169.1x/2013_Spring/s...

Learning Rails now is the equivalent of starting to watch Coronation Street (British Soap) last week (The show has been running since 1960).

I agree that it is incredibly difficult to get up and running on Rails. Efforts are under way to get one click installs working so that you can get working in no time at all but these all take time and money to develop.

Just because a software engineer completed a college course does not mean they have finished learning, they're just beginning. That's why I love this profession, there is always something else to learn and apply.

Stick at it, you've learned a lot, BUT there's ALWAYS going to be a lot more to learn no matter the domain.