So yesterday something happened.  Out of nowhere.  I began to “get it”.  All this stuff I was so confused about regarding Rails and Ajax - the holes in my understanding of DOM manipulation.  Now I’m not making claims by any means that I’ve turned into some expert.  I’m simply stating that I’m starting to finally see through the fog.  Yesterday I converted a ColdFusion project of mine into Ruby on Rails, it took me about an hour and thirty minutes.  Here’s the weird thing… it runs faster.  I don’t get that.  If ColdFusion compiles pages into byte code.  Why is it that pages that run in ColdFusion in 15ms run in Rails in 3ms.  I thought Rails was suppose to be slow?  Anyone have any idea?  I wasn’t even using page or fragment caching yet.  It was just running native in development mode on a Mongrel.

Anyway, I can only imagine what lays ahead.