My pitfalls while learning Ruby and Rails, First Issue

This is a series of reflections on the harshest falls I took learning Ruby and Rails over the course of the last few years. This first two issues tackle my stumbling with two very commonly spoken anecdotes, one about Ruby, the other about Rails. The first common saying I will address is about Ruby and it is the notion that Ruby is easy to understand and pleasant to read. I saw this in many places, on the official site, on many a forum, and on conference talk videos. I even agreed with this notion initially from my first impressions of looking at programs written in Ruby. The problem for me lied in the fact that reading something and understanding something are two very different things. Let's build some context. I graduated from university in 2022. This was also the time I decided to stick to a framework and language to reach more substance rather than project and framework hop from new thing to new thing. I had worked on projects in multiple languages before Java, Python, small assemb