There's been a lot of controversy surrounding the changes to Rails 3.1. It started with an epic GitHub commit thread and the discussion exploded again in the past few days after What the Hell is Hapenning to Rails and Yehuda's response thereto. I'm going to address the issue from a perspective that honestly hadn't even occurred to me until I just said it while in a conversation with some Kansas City Ruby folks after the last meetup: "What if Rails isn't for beginners anymore?"