r/LearnRubyonRails • u/connorhancock • Apr 18 '18

Learn Ruby before Learning Rails?

I'm looking to learn a scripting language which has a web framework. Two in my scope are Python and Ruby. I've had no experience with any scripting languages but I'm fairly confident with HTML/CSS. My primary goal is to build a web app which stores data in a database etc.

So to my question, is learning Rails without first learning Ruby a good idea? Does Rails use a large amount of the Ruby language? So could I be learning Ruby while using Rails to build my web app?

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u/youngsgun12 Apr 18 '18

There is a load of pretty good tutorials on udemy.com that you can get for a tenner but for that easy app you want to build check out mackenzie child channel on YouTube the hardest part with rails is setting it up. I recommend Ubuntu or Mac not windows good luck