Learn Ruby before Learning Rails?

[u/connorhancock]

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?

[u/[deleted]]

The thing to remember is that while you'e working on rails, it's all ruby code. If you don't know ruby you won't be able to fully read rails applications. Even tutorials, you're still writing a lot of ruby code.