I didn't learn Ruby/Rails back when it was the "cool new thing" -- I resisted and tried to wrestle PHP to my liking. Eventually I gave up and threw my hat in th

I didn't learn Ruby/Rails back when it was the "cool new thing" -- I resisted and tried to wrestle PHP to my liking. Eventually I gave up and threw my hat in the ring, and I'm so glad I did. My advice is to learn Rails first, and then take all the wonderful things you've learned and apply them to other languages and ecosystems if you wish (many libraries and frameworks for Javascript and other langs are inspired by Ruby or Rails). I don't think it's as valuable to attempt the reverse...