title: Rails: Where to start? <Big City Without a Roadmap>
body: <p>So, I'm still a young developer, but I am trying to endeavour into Rails and server side development. Up until now, I have only ever worked on native application programming (iOS, OSX, JAVA (.jar), etc.).</p>
  
  <p>I jumped into a few Ruby tutorials and then Rails tutorials. I found it straightforward to go through the Ruby tutorials as Ruby has an awesome syntax, but when I jumped into the Rails tutorials, most of it assumed having knowledge about HTML (I have a basic understanding, but not much that I can credit) and other web components. It felt overwhelming, however I was fine to go through just understanding the rails part of the tutorial.</p>
  
  <p>All this being said, I don't know what to do to continue learning rails from here on out. I feel like I'm in a huge city without a good roadmap, so I am trying to ask the pedestrians/cityfolk (you guys!) what I should be doing now.</p>
  
  <p>I would love to be able to just write up rails applications without having to build a website along with it (just simple API calls for some of my applications even). However, everything about this is foreign to me and I would just like to know where I need to go from here.</p>
  
  <p>If this isn't the right place to ask a question like this, I'm sorry! Hopefully someone can direct me to an appropriate site, if thats the case.</p>
  
  <p>Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have provided an answer myself that I believe to be a solid solution to my own problem. If people could let me know the validity and worthiness of my answer, it would be greatly appreciated. I would like to accept the best possible answer to help any beginner web developers looking to learn Rails, like myself.</p>