[31reasons]

It sounds like going to a Disney Land and complaining that all rides are easy. If you want tough and challenging rides go to SixFlags.

If you want to tackle tough challenges may be ruby/rails is not the ideal place. Perhaps learn C,C++ and implement faster ruby or javascript interpreter or implement a distributed filesystem in ruby or java. You can also contribute to the rails framework.

[nielmalhotra]

I've learned that ruby/rails is not the place to go for tough challenges. Agreed. My question now is where do I go from here?

[31reasons]

If you like computer graphics, there are also tons of interesting problems in that field.