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It was promoted as being easy for people who already knew how to program. Which it was. The 5-minute blog video wouldn't help a total newb at all, but to an experienced developer it's clear how powerful it was.



I can attest to this. I was a total noob when I saw that video and didn't get it.

Spent several years in the murky php waters because I could just drop that code in the html I did know and go.

Now that I have more experience its more more clear the benefits of rails/django




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