Same here. I’ve basically made my career as a rails developer and it’s never taken me very long to figure out the many applications I’ve worked with. Some of them are quite complicated.

Some of the older stuff built around rails overdid the meta-programming. Makes unraveling things a little more difficult, but you generally know where to look.

And every time I see a nontrivial state machine using a state machine gem, I know I’m in for a world of hurt. But I know exactly what mistakes I will be fixing. :)