> You will learn ruby quicker because you won't have to get bogged down in details about how rails decides to do things. Exactly! ... one of the most confusing

> You will learn ruby quicker because you won't have to get bogged down in details about how rails decides to do things. Exactly! ... one of the most confusing things about Rails is how much you're told not to understand some of the heavy lifting done by the framework, the monkey patching and all kinds of magic tricks all over the place. I've done webapps programming for long now and I recently followed the Rails tutorial from beginning to end just to make sure I could remember some now obvious stuff about testing, etc. and I understand it can be completely overwhelming if you try to learn all the Ruby + Rails + RSpec + SCSS + jQuery combo at once. Try something simpler, build something with Shoes (http://shoesrb.com/ http://shoesrb.com/) or if you're into web apps, something like Sinatra would be a better fit.