chris blogs: How Rails made me a better programmer
chris blogs: How Rails made me a better programmer (Consider this an entry for the contest.)
The question how Rails made me a better programmer can be answered in a short, but incomplete and actually wrong way: It didn’t.
That is only half the truth. When Rails was released in 2004, I already had almost three years of programming experience in Ruby. Therefore, I don’t think I learned much from Rails in a technical way. I knew MVC, the code didn’t particularly impress me, and, in the end, I didn’t care a lot about web development either. At that time, at least.
The things I’ve learned (or everyone could learn) from Rails are social lessons. Some of them were to be expected, some were very unexpected and a few still make me question the universe everytime I think of them.
So, what did I learn from Rails?
