I learned Ruby and Rails at the same time just like you and many others. I found that people I got to work with who had learned Ruby first and then Rails had a

I learned Ruby and Rails at the same time just like you and many others. I found that people I got to work with who had learned Ruby first and then Rails had a clearer understanding of how things actually work. Rails was doing so much magic that some people never learned how things work without Rails. Autoloading is the strongest example that comes to mind.