learn ruby

I still consider myself intermediate, but I know this well enough now to use it to make my living, so I’m marking it as done :-)

I picked up Agile with Rails, and played with some online resources. Learning it has been great, I have basic programming skills in other languages, but mostly just Actionscript.

But learning Rails is fun and addictive I’ve found.

I started a photoblog http://www.pfosphene.com and it would be neat to learn how to build something like that in Rails that I could customize more.

And I am becoming more and more infatuated with doing this. Looking at getting some books, and pragmatic programmer books I’ve heard are great starting points.

Question: Do I start with a programming ruby book, or go straight to rails, or both in that order?

Anyway, may be a dumb question as my gut says to me to learn to walk before I run with ruby on rails…

Okay, I understand basic to intermediate programming, and have only programmed in a web environment so far – small apps w/actionscript, little bit of php, and tiny amounts of CFM.

What I am wondering is, I want to delve into a programming language mainly for web apps and dynamic websites. I am currently a CSS developer/web designer.

Should I go for Ruby? Or is PHP or something else a better answer?