Ask any developer who has worked with modern web frameworks what they think of Ruby on Rails, and you will almost certainly hear the same word within thirty seconds:

"Magic."

You run a generator, and entire database tables spring to life. You write an empty model class, and it immediately knows every column in your schema without a single property declaration. You define an instance variable inside a controller action, and it appears inside a separate view template as if object boundaries ceased to exist. You reference a class you have never required, and Ruby finds it instantly.

To newcomers, it feels like witchcraft.…