C-puter

I really thought that there would come a time in using ruby on rails that I would say "Gee, this was easy to use at first, but now that I am trying to do more difficult stuff, things are getting harder". I have yet to come to that point; currently, things that I need to do already have some nice shortcuts in rails (e.g. user login stuff). I watched part of David Heinemeier Hansson's presentation (http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rubyonrails.mov) on the rails philosophy. Rails was designed for the specific purpose of developing a web application, making it easier to use than many frameworks, but not as flexible for use as a framework for things other than web apps. So, there are tradeoffs Rails makes in order to provide smart/nice features and shorten the learning curve.