You're sending mixed messages - if you want to learn something for fun, you only need to ask yourself which language you enjoy the most and pick a corresponding

You're sending mixed messages - if you want to learn something for fun, you only need to ask yourself which language you enjoy the most and pick a corresponding framework. If you want to learn something future proof, both rails and node are going to be around for a long time yet, so you can't really go wrong with either of them. Node is much more low-level than Rails - you probably want to be looking at Express if you're after a web development framework. Whatever you do just pick _something_, and don't get lost down the rabbit hole (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5197155 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5197155).