Rebuilding Rails

Understand Rails by Building a Ruby Web Framework How Would An Expert Learn Rails? After three hours of searching incomplete and inconsistent API documentation, you know there must be a better way. The real experts don't learn it this way. How would they learn how Rails works? Like this: The magic thing about Rails is when I looked at it the first time, I knew how it worked because I already knew Ruby really well. I saw all the metaprogramming tricks; they were almost transparent, looking at it. But I didn't know you could put it together that way and create something so expressive and succinct. — Chad Fowler, episode 1 of The Ruby Hangout (0:41:48)