[cpursley]

I think this speaks of a larger trend with the Rails platform. What I mean is that it's now a mature platform and Railscasts have covered a lot of ground. My guess is part of the burnout Ryan is experiencing is due to a dwindling amount of material to cover without venturing outside of the platform, which he has been doing (and is welcome).

While I love Rails and Ruby (and learned a ton from Railscasts), the future of the web is building a separate RESTful API + separate static JavaScript browser app + any other devices like mobile, Glass, etc (opposed to nesting client-side JS apps under assets).

Edit: In response to the downvotes, let me clarify: I think Ryan is running out of topics in the context of Rails. He's a great teacher and I'm a paid pro subscriber.

[CoachRufus87]

How did you infer that from "I don't want to return until I am fully ready to avoid getting burnt out."?

[terenceponce]

I think this is more of an issue about burn out rather than Rails itself. Ryan has been releasing videos regularly for years now and it's actually surprising that it has taken him this long to want to take a break.

[gorrillamcd]

I fail to see what platform opinions has to do with Ryan getting burned out from making tons of awesome sreencasts.