If you want to get your feet wet with some real work, I highly recommend joining the folks at assemblymade.com. They have a really neat platform for collaborat

If you want to get your feet wet with some real work, I highly recommend joining the folks at assemblymade.com. They have a really neat platform for collaboration that will allow you to make real contributions to a commercial project. One of their most active projects, Helpful, is a Rails app and would be a great companion project to the typical self-taught track of learning.