What was the most difficult part of learning Rails for you?

As for me, the hardest thing is to think as a programmer. I mean how to figure out the relationships between models, what the best and optimal way to to store data and make database queries. Software architecture, that's what really tricky for me.

Trouble shooting and understanding which part isn't working. There are a lot of books and online tutorials that walk you through building applications but when your starting out and aren't very familiar with Ruby, Rails, MVC, and your follow what a tutorial says but yours is broken it can be pretty discouraging. I think I attempted to learn RoR twice before finally making through a complete tutorial. Tracking down which gems are causing others to break is frustrating too. Recently, an update to Sass, Compass, or Foundation broke something somewhere and plenty of us spent hours if not days trying to fix things.

at first starting with rails and generating a scaffold created like 100 different files. This took a bit to get used to because with php (for me at least) you create while you go, and I never used MVC before. Down the line tho Rails its so much more powerful, it just took me a while to understand it.