Comment by harry-wood

The "Learning on the job" section brought back some memories of my experiences solo-developing a rails app. I made some of the same mistakes, although I think I mostly made the mistake of avoiding learning. I knew I should be writing tests with minitest or rspec, but never made time to learn it (instead I rolled my own request test framework!) And I stuck with subversion because I didn't fancy learning this newfangled git thing. When it finally came to hiring a second developer they had to teach me these things, and they thought I was an idiot :-(