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Discussion on: What software development tools (libraries/frameworks/apps/whatever) make you feel most anxious while you're working with them?

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morgana

Rails. I'm learning webdev on my own and Rails has layers upon layers. I have a small project I'm working on and it's taking some time to dig through.

The 2 big things I struggle with are

  1. Learning the never-ending list of conventions and trying to recall how I did X.
  2. Stepping back from my systems/SRE brain that wants to deep dive everything (I got lost in a rabbit hole for several days on webpack, yarn, sprockets, compression, comparisons, pros/cons, benchmarks, etc.)

I counter both of these struggles by trying to do at least one thing daily and picking one or two things to read more about. As with most things, I imagine expertise with rails takes a lot of practice.

Then I spend time working on a kata or two in codewars to improve my ability with Ruby.