If you’re reading our blog, chances are good that, like me, you were/are working with a non-Ruby, non-Rails technology most of the time. And going from one framework to a brand new one, or one programming language to a new one, or one musical instrument to a new one, can be discouraging sometimes even if you think it’s right thing to do.

I had been thinking for a while about the best way to describe this experience, when I see today that Martin Fowler just posted a great piece on this subject. And as always, has expressed the concepts in one page better than I could in ten.

So read his latest post and then let me know what you think.

How has it been for you, trying to learn something new like Rails? Easy? Hard? In between?

We’ve got to get in, to get out (Genesis, “Carpet Crawlers”)