[LRUG] The puzzling phenomenon of the Rails dev who hardly knows Ruby

Leonardo Saraiva vyper at maneh.org
Wed Jul 6 07:32:07 PDT 2016


I see many people asking and using active record for search, persist... but
does not know "nothing" about SQL.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Jon Wood <jon at ninjagiraffes.co.uk> wrote:

> I can't speak to the mythical Rails developer who doesn't know Ruby, but I
> do have quite frequent frustrating conversations with my brother who hacks
> things together in C#. They tend to involve him complaining that some
> seemingly trivial problem is far to complex to solve, and invariably it
> turns out his approach of searching Stack Overflow for answers vaguely
> similar but never attempting to understand them means he doesn't understand
> the fundamentals. He's the C# equivalent of a Rails developer who can hook
> up models, but wouldn't even know that model classes can inherit from
> things other than ActiveRecord::Base, and in both cases its caused by not
> having the time and/or motivation to look into how things actually work.
>
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 at 15:08 gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I hear of this a lot - the Rails dev who hardly knows Ruby and I'm left
>> scratching my head. How on earth can anyone become proficient in a
>> complex framework like Rails without understanding the language it's
>> written in?
>>
>> Someone please enlighten me.
>>
>> gvim
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