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

[Louis Goff-Beardsley]

I’ve run into this multiple times; developers who look great on paper “5 years of Ruby on Rails experience” – but it’s been lots of Rails and not working so much with the core language. In almost every case I’ve seen its been where people have worked either as isolated freelance developers or working in smaller digital agencies.

Really sucks when it happens as peoples salary expectations go from being sky-high to facing the harsh reality that they aren’t the senior developer they think they are. The remedy is to spend some time as a mid-level developer in a company with a more balanced usage of Ruby/Rails to get their careers back on track.

Best, Louis

From: Chat [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org] On Behalf Of Tommy Palmer
Sent: 06 July 2016 15:58
To: Luke Bennellick <bennellick.luke at gmail.com>; London Ruby Users Group <chat at lists.lrug.org>
Subject: Re: [LRUG] The puzzling phenomenon of the Rails dev who hardly knows Ruby

When I started out as a Dev I was working in a product agency mostly working on early stage prototypes for startups to try and get more funding. Most of my workload was building out the view layer. Eventually I became more experienced with Rails and was building out features in some comparatively complicated Apps. Building something fairly complicated from the User’s perspective with not very deep knowledge of Rails was however fairly easy. Yeah the code probably wasn’t very pretty, scalable or understandable but it got the work done and the client was happy.


Until you need to handle problems of scale or do something fairly different from the standard CRUD app you don’t need to dig too deep. Knowing which bits of code are Ruby and which are Rails doesn’t come into it when you’re *always* using Rails and aren’t doing anything too complicated.



As you dig deeper and need to do more complicated things, only then do you start to learn Ruby properly. At least in my experience.



Tommy




On 6 July 2016 at 15:30:53, Luke Bennellick (bennellick.luke at gmail.com<mailto:bennellick.luke at gmail.com>) wrote:
I think it depends what you mean by proficient. You can become proficient at building CRUD style apps like a blog etc without much Ruby, but not much else!

On 6 July 2016 at 12:36, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com<mailto: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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