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And you think slapping ActiveRecord to a Ruby class doesn't hide thousands of lines of code?

Do you need a truly holistic and in-depth understand of every piece you use? How in-depth does you understanding need to be to use ActiveRecord/ActionCable/etc? What about underlying libraries? Protocols? Engine internals?

Do you need an in depth and holistic understanding of React and all its dependencies to write () => <div>Razzle Dazzle</div>? Nah, surely not





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