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

[Jon Wood]

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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