I mean, that the better way to learning is to continue in PHP and then start with RoR. If you have some experience with PHP, try to be able work in that and write in that web apps. You will learn some programming practices and other programming language will not a problem... Plus PHP have a quick curve learning...
RoR is not a programming language, but it's a framework. You wrote you would like to write a desktop application... I'm newbie in Ruby/RoR, but that are tools for building web applications... I think for this will totally better languages like C/C++ or Java... I see I have other view on this theme than a colleagues, but try everything and you'll see, what will be for you the best :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.