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What's "magical" about Rails...I really dislike that criticism because it's an inaccurate cliche. Rails has great documentation and common sense (for the most part) conventions. Try doing something in Spring and tell me your experience ... it can easily be described as "magic" unless you read a massive amount of Spring documentation.

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I admit it's a long time since I used Rails and Ruby, and it was around the same time I was learning Python and Django back when Rails was the hot thing - but Django seemed to be more straight forward and less of "So why is this working". If you read the PEP20 Zen of Python that resonates much more soundly with me particularly "Explicit is better than implicit."

This drives me nuts for example: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#re... - ok it's automatically parsing and rendering that template, based on that route and controller and it's less code but less explicit. And it assumes that we have written all the filenames correctly.

Which it's a pretty fair assumption: you would create all of those files through generators, eliminating the need for writing boilerplate. And make the name explicit if, for any reason, your template is located somewhere else.

I am not a huge Rails fan, but in this particular case I see zero issues with how Rails does things.

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