One of my first projects as a Ruby/Rails programmer is simply getting static pages served on Heroku. That's it. Nothing fancy. I know that some would argue that I should be coming up with an "application," and I'm getting there. A friend had an immediate need to roll his static page over to Rails as he began to plan for more functionality, and I was happy to help to get some practice.
A few things pop into my head here. I have only been programming in Ruby/Rails for two weeks now, and that has been at night after the day job. I haven't even been fully invested in it each and every night, and yet I still feel like I'm growing in proficiency fairly quickly. Rails has its own set of frustrations - but 90% of the time, I feel like this is just how things should be DONE.
However....
Rails is an opinionated framework. It has a prescribed way of doing things, and it doesn't quite care if you don't want to do things that way. I still have no idea how I would di