[jlees]

Check out http://tryruby.org/ while you wait. I just ran through it again last night and it's so beautifully crafted I want to weep.

I learnt Ruby kind-of-alongside Rails and wish I'd spent more time focusing on the language itself; I'm going back and deepening my knowledge of it now. But it depends on how your mind works, whether you want to get a Rails project going yesterday, what knowledge you have locked away somewhere, and so on.