Re:Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
by 20thCB on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:36AM
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"If you learn for Rails, start with 5.2.3, webpacker and the other black magic in Rails 6 will frustrate you and currently eliminates a lot of the ease of getting started and building relatively sophisticated web apps quickly."
Anyone else agree with this?
Re:Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
by buf on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:18AM
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Nope.
Webpacker is here to stay and takes about 5 minutes to understand. Might as well take advantage of it so you can quickly add complex front end components via React or whatever flavor of FE you prefer.
Re:Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
by adsteel_ on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:49AM
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I agree, webpacker makes learning Rails harder. It's a shame. But learning on a non current version is a short term solution. A good tutorial, like Michael Hartl's, will get you over that hump.
I've been using Python recently as I've done more ML work, and I do prefer Ruby (though the syntaxes are similar and you won't have any difficulty).
If you learn for Rails, start with 5.2.3, webpacker and the other black magic in Rails 6 will frustrate you and currently eliminates a lot of the ease of getting started and building relatively sophisticated web apps quickly.