Feelings Before
had seen code and done some algorithm problems with it, but I had never really built and deployed my own real live, fully featured website in ruby on rails. Also, a lot of the bad sentiment towards it comes from just its execution time / scaling issues, the fact that there's a lot of "magic" in the frameworks, and just how it "tries to make things easy" for the developers. In this unique situation I didn't care about those things, and I was able to appreciate it just the simplicity of the language and framework itself.