The things I like about RoR is that due to the structure and expectations of rails, I suspect it is much quicker to get new people up to speed on a project because theoretically, the structure is already laid out.

I also in theory like the way it handles migrations, though I haven't actually used it in a production environment yet.

The things I'm HATING is that every little bit of code I write doesn't work!

I'm moving like molasses here, and have very little to show for nearly 3 weeks of messing with this language.

As you can see from my stackoverflow account http://stackoverflow.com/users/48067/pedalpete, if you care to look, I'm spending hours doing minor little things like making a link to delete a database entry and it just doesn't work!

Has anybody been in the same situation? I'm following guides, watching the railscasts, etc. etc. but I'm absolutely not getting it and extremely frustrated.

Maybe I just don't remember being this frustrated with PHP, but I seem to recall with PHP i was getting into some much deeper stuff when I was still learning and I don't remember it being nearly this painful.

Has anybody else had the same experience?

Is there some magic bullet that is all of a sudden going to make this better?

I can't believe that all the hype around RoR is really applicable to everybody but me, so there must be something I'm missing.