Quick Tip – Go Back and Re-Watch Things You Didn’t Understand Before
Today I finally got around to watching the first Rails Dispatch episode of building a blog under Rails 3, and was surprised by a couple of things.
First was that Rails 3 isn’t that different than Rails 2 (which BTW, is apparently obselete 
at least for the “normal” tasks of CRUD like operations in the demo application. A few bits of different syntax here and there, but for the most part it was all pretty recognizable.
I was secondly surprised at how much I understood. Not that I’m dumb of course, but a lot of things in rails I just let wash over me and accept that I Just Don’t Get Yet(tm)(r)(c). This stuff however, was perfectly recognizable and grokkable, and because of that I actually picked up a couple of new things.
So my personal revelation of the day (I’m not going to call them tips cause that’d indicate that other people don’t all know this stuff already) is to go back and re-watch, re-read, or re-listen to things that you maybe didn’t fully grasp, or didn’t grasp that fully, and see if the second viewing with a few weeks or months of time gives you a better grasp of it.
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