If it's still like the RoR I used, it can never be considered "boring", just old.
It was a framework where code you dump in "conventional" locations is autoloaded everywhere.
With DSLs based on interpreting the method name as an expression, reflecting on them in `method_missing` implementations you get from inheriting classes.
Where state is shared between instance objects by way of reflection.
Where source diving is the documentation in many third party packages.
No, these were reasons why "rockstar" became a pejorative in the programming community for a while.