The last time I switched my paid development work, from C++ to Ruby and Rails, I came at it from using Ruby scripting then later to Rails. So I had a good foundation in the language before diving into the “magic” of Rails.
With Phoenix and Elixir, which may be my next development stack, I’m intentionally coming at it from Phoenix-is-kinda-Railish perspective. The MVC patterns of Rails have similarities - like a foreign language that kinda makes sense because you speak a related language. Where Ruby chains methods together with dots, Elixir uses the pipe-greater-than symbol (“|>”).
Of course, there is a lot more to elixir. Read the docs.