Personal goal: Learn Ruby (on Rails)

The time has come. I need to discipline myself to learn Ruby (on rails). It’s been around for quite a while now and I just have dig in. So I’m making a new personal goal: learn Ruby or bust.

The problem is that breaking the PHP habit will be dificult. Although, I’ve become more OOP aware and always try to create objects instead of random functions. I suppose I could stick with PHP and use Cake or Zend’s Framework to build MVC style applications, but, that sounds increasingly boring these days. I need something new to obsess over.

So, I’m off to learn. I can’t really learn by book; it just doesn’t work for me. I have to get my hands dirty. What better way to do that than to build something. I’m not talking about building a blog in 15 minutes (especially since there several other blogging type applications written in RoR already). It will have to be something somewhat unique that will keep me interested enough in the language and challenging enough to keep me busy. I’m open to suggestions and always open to collaboration (if anyone is interested).