Hi Everyone,

I'm fairly new to DaniWeb and I was hoping I could get some advice from all you experts out there. I registered my own domain name and got a host a few days ago and am planning on building a personal website based on Ruby on Rails (I'm not so sure I understand what Ruby on Rails is...as compared to just plain Ruby). I hope to grow it into a commercial site someday, but for now, I just want to learn as much as I can. So far, my web programming experience is limited to Perl, SQL, Javascript, and HTML that I learned from work for the last two months. I don't really know much about Ruby, except that it is gaining popularity, so I bought O'Reilly's "Learning Ruby" book and am trying to pick up on it. At the same time, I am trying to learn how to make cascading stylesheets to make the formatting of my website easier and appearance cleaner. Somethings I want to learn are how to setup email and maybe a shopping cart. If anyone can point me in the right direction...advice, web tutorials, good books, examples, etc...I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!