This is what I have mostly with Rails; when I started working with it I was good at Ruby but didn't use Rails and for a beginner it's horrible. There tons of options for everything, everything is badly documented, most things scratch an itch so when you use it, some of the completely logical things you expect are missing. Samples of gem usage randomly skip steps which can be a hair pulling exercise for a beginner. Then when you finished your app and try to update gems a week later, everything breaks completely. And this is not an attempt at trolling; I now use Rails daily and build rather huge projects in it and this still upsets me. When things work and you know how they work, all is easy and great, installing and using. When either or both of those are not true, you are in absolute hell, especially as a beginner. And nothing of that has to do with actual programming and it shouldn't be needed; your environment should solve this for this imho.