Uhhm, it certainly is about magic, it&#x27;s creator goes on about that quite a bit. So the happy meal developers don&#x27;t really have to know how to code. Just install these gems, copy these incantations from the pragprog book, you too can have your site in five minutes.<p>You don&#x27;t need to understand the shiny magic, I mean, it detracts from being saying &quot;I&#x27;m a Rails developer&quot;, but maybe it would help if they did.