[JohnBooty]

Agree. Learning Ruby first is really valuable.

Frameworks like Rails extend Ruby rather seamlessly. If you're entirely new to both Ruby and Rails, that's a looooooooooooooooot.

If one must absolutely must learn everything in a day or two, one can probably just look at the official Rails Guides. That is sufficient to write a Hello World or simple CRUD app, and Ruby is simple+friendly enough not to pose a challenge.

However, getting familiar with Ruby outside of Rails is highly recommended. It's fast and easy to learn. As a bonus IMHO you don't need the more complex bits (metaprogramming, etc) for typical Rails app development.