First impressions of Rails

1 · Evan Hahn · Aug. 13, 2012, 5 a.m.
My internship at UniversityNow had me using Ruby on Rails, but I was mostly working with Backbone.js and fixing small Rails bugs. I had never sat down and built anything from scratch before. Today, I spent about six hours learning my way through starting a Rails app. I thought it'd be interesting to catalog my first impressions of Rails. Please keep in mind that I have no bloody clue what I'm talking about, this is just my reflection. Rails is crazy. It seems like a nice (and extendable) collec...