In order to keep with my personal goal of learning something new that will advance my career at least a few times a year I have decided to devote 25% of my week to learning Ruby on Rails. I’d go into a long tangent on why I believe it’s a language and framework worth learning, but this article on A List Apart sums it up much better then I can.

If you build websites, you have no doubt heard about Ruby on Rails (RoR). But if you’re a designer or front-end developer or you’re using PHP without any application framework, it may seem like a big leap to adopt the Ruby on Rails approach. In this article, I hope to demystify Ruby on Rails and convince you that you can make the leap—and that it is a leap worth making if your needs fit within the Ruby on Rails “sweet spot” detailed below.

I’ll be dragging a few friends along on this adventure with me and I’ll be posting here as I go with my progress.

If you are interested in Ruby on Rails and don’t need the article above to convince you of anything, you can go straight to the lessons I am taking and check it out for yourself. They are in podcast and screencast format and are very well done so far.