[nanijoe]

I can't speak for any one else, but I'm sure glad I decided to learn rails about 4 years ago...It forced me to take several detours and learn things like ruby, css, html some linux admin etc I would heartily recommend rails to all beginners

[forkhammer]

For what it's worth, I feel the same way: learning Rails has sent me down a lot of roads and inspired me to learn a lot of new, interesting, valuable things. I knew Ruby before I started... but even just the conceptual elegance of Rails has taught me something.