Rail is probably one of the most intuitive framework that I have ever used. No doubt it is highly opinionated but it hides all the complexity for small to medium applications.
It all depends what you’re working with. ActiveRecord can get gnarly. The rest of it is pretty easy to understand once you know what methods are called.
I think what confuses people is Ruby’s meta programming. The ability to dynamically define named methods makes rails seem far more magical than it actually is. You also can’t tell the difference between method calls and local variables.
It is too much to hold in my head at once sometimes. I can understand how it all fits together but the lack of types means I’m holding a lot more in my head at once.
