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POWhen learning Ruby on Rails, should I focus on just learning Rails or learn associated technologies along with it?
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  1. POWhen learning Ruby on Rails, should I focus on just learning Rails or learn associated technologies along with it?
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    copied!<p>I'm planning on taking the time to actually learn Ruby on Rails in-depth (I've previously done some very minor dabbling with it) so I can hopefully reinvent myself as a Rails developer.</p> <p>The issue I run into though is that there are a fair bit of related technologies that are currently used in the Rails community, and I'm not sure if I should learn the whole shebang or focus on learning Rails with the defaults first, and then branch out into the additional stuff.</p> <p>For example:</p> <ul> <li>Templates. I took a look at <strong>Haml</strong> and it looks really cool (shouldn't be hard to learn either).</li> <li>Testing. I've wanted to learn test driven development for a while now, but the "next big thing" in Rails-land seems to be behavior driven development with <strong>RSpec</strong></li> <li>Javascript. I'm not sure if I should stick with <strong>RJS</strong> or use something like <strong>jQuery</strong> which seems to be converting people.</li> <li>I've never really used version control much. Rails seems to be using <strong>Git</strong> for most of it's projects.</li> </ul> <p>Basically I want to learn Rails "right", but there seems to be a lot of different ways that I could go. Should I ignore the "variants" and focus on the Core stuff until I've written an application or three (e.g. core, unmodified Rails; RJS w/Prototype and Scriptaculous for Ajax, regular Test::Unit for testing, ERB for templating, Git for version control), or should I try to pick up some of the variants along the way?</p>
 

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