Documenting the Rails Learning experience from a novice's standpoint

Hi there! You probably don't know me, I am fairly quiet on github and less than interesting in twitter from a professional developer's perspective.  I do have something interesting to say though: I am a novice programmer that just scored an awesome job in a rails focused company (namely Cubox) and has to learn the framework from scratch.

 One of the hot topics in the Rails world nowadays is the fact that rails (3.0 and, more notoriously rails 3.1) has apparently gone from being a low-entry novice framework to a more experienced-programmer oriented tool*.  Is this true? And if it is: is that necessarily a bad thing? I have, obviously, no authority to comment properly on this, but maybe this blog - while being only one particular case study - can still contribute something to the debate.

 What's my background, you say? Well, I've toyed around with computer programming for maybe something like three years. I started with - sigh - Visual Basic .Net on a private university, that.... didn't last.  Basically after my first semester I decided that learning stuff on my own was way faster, less expensive and much more fun, so I dropped out somewhere in the middle of my second semester and started toying around with Ruby for a litte while.  It actually didn't hook me up at that point so I switched to Python, at which point I got my first computer programming job at a local company called Netgate,  working with an Asterisk-based system written - mostly - in Python called Expand.

  Now, I spend a lot of time reading about computer programming, so of course I knew about rails, some of my best friends are ruby programmers, and that definitely helped pushing me to finally apply for a job in Cubox, I am currently finishing my third week as a ruby/rails developer.

So, to summarize on my previous knowledge: I know next to nothing about professional web development (or I do, maybe, a bit, but  I've never done anything that even resembles a complete web application), I am fairly proficient with Python, I've had sporadic love affairs with Ruby over the last few months until I found myself working in ruby fulltime three weeks ago.

Next post should include the highlights on what it's been like so far, ups, downs, brain damages and heavenly joys of working with Ruby on Rails 3.0 while being a complete noob. :)

Cheers!

* This is a brief but interesting article on the subject