Every worthwhile project you will do, you will learn something new. That's true for even those of us who have over 10 years of experience. Adapt or die - always true in the IT industry :)
Thanks. While there was almost too many new things while being handheld through the process--writing my function to setting up rails and git, building a simple app around the function, committing it to git hub and deploying it to Heroku--I now have a sense for each of those steps, and I feel more confident to try each again on my own.