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Re:Happy Birthday, Ruby by moojd on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:57PM (#18876156)
"Ruby has its place and whilst you think Rails is "magic" the internet begs to differ. Of course any framework looks like "magic" if you don't bother digging into implementation details of it. That is the whole point!"

I think most people including many Rails proponents would agree that Rails has a huge emphasis on "magic" compared to other frameworks. It's a feature. Convention over Configuration implies magic and that is one of Rails' most famous tenets.

Love it or hate it, magic is Rails' modus operandi

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Re:Happy Birthday, Ruby by beforedawn on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:42PM (#18878518)
Magic or abstraction layers should be intuitive, so you understand them and are able to solve edge cases. If the abstraction layers are too foggy or magical and you are unable to fix edge cases yourself, something is wrong.
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