Becoming a Rubyist

So, I've decided to finally "officially" learn Ruby.  A couple of times, I remember having a terminal up and spitting out something like:

puts "Hello, world!

..and then I walked away.  Well this time it will be different...I promise!

So far, I have completed the Ruby track on Codecademy and now Smarterer says I'm proficient.  Time to spit out a couple of answers in Ruby on Code Eval as well.

What next, though?  I think that answer is Ruby on Rails.  Everybody around this area seems to use it, so I may as well put some effort into one of my ideas and see if I can get a site built with it.

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