If you are interested in web development, this is the ideal way to learn the language. You won't just learn the language, you'll have immediate practical applic

If you are interested in web development, this is the ideal way to learn the language. You won't just learn the language, you'll have immediate practical applications for the language constructs. Unlike the people you speak of, someone trying to learn the language would stop and learn what a class variable is. This is exactly how I learned Rails and the Ruby language. I just dove in to Rails and went to Ruby references along the way.