2 reasons: (1) we're the only rails team in a large company that is mostly java; so I'd like to get better. (2) recently went back to school part-time and we've

2 reasons: (1) we're the only rails team in a large company that is mostly java; so I'd like to get better. (2) recently went back to school part-time and we've been doing java projects but with no tooling, frameworks or external libs ... so I'm kinda curious if it gets nicer.