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Re:Keep Ruby Weird Again [video] by quesera on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:34AM (#12852270)
That's mostly an effect of Rails. "Convention over configuration" was one of the early mantras, and usually it serves well for such a large API...but sometimes it's just magic.

Ruby itself is a fairly explicit and consistent language. Some of the syntax might seem surprising at first if you haven't bought into the "everything is an object (really)" perspective.

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Re:Keep Ruby Weird Again [video] by matt_kantor on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:09AM (#12852821)
Chef is pretty magical as well. I think it's easy to get carried away with syntax-sugary DSLs at the expense of of straightforwardness in Ruby if you aren't disciplined about simplicity.
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