[Czarnian]

Rails is not for beginning web developers.

As an educated CS professional with a reasonable amount of experience in non-web development fields (database design and embedded systems), the roadblocks I hit always had to do with understanding web development concepts.

I also got frustrated finding meaningful help on some of these subjects. I found it next to impossible to find straightforward explanations of things like routing. The help always seemed to consist of either advanced material that assumed the viewer knew about routing or "Suck it, noob." type responses like the OP talks about.