Learn Ruby and Rails

I wouldn’t say i’m an expert by any stretch of the imagination but i’ve got my RoR app up and running.
It’s been live for the last 2 months and all is going smoothly so far =)

I first tried picking up Ruby / Rails last September, whilst following the numerous guides and tutorials was good I never actually learnt much from it.
Nonetheless I saw how productive this can make application development and was impressed!

I’ve revisited it this year over the last couple of weeks and its coming along nicely.
It’s certainly a lot easier to pick something up if you have a project to work on rather than follow step-by-step guides.
To begin with, I was getting pretty frustrated as most of my coding is done on the commute to and from work thus sans-internet so when I get stuck I get stuck.
The more I have stuck at it the more success I have had, whilst I’m sure my code is probably pretty crappy the application is ACTUALLY working! It’s a great feeling of accomplishment when I crack a problem i’ve been staring at for a while.
I’ve also found ‘the zone’, for example I was on such a roll yesterday I found myself up until 3am tweaking.

I’ve got a long way to go before I could call myself even competent but there is definately progress :)