The “real world” project I’ve come up with to learn Ruby on Rails will be ‘Freevite’ - an online event coordination application. A quick google turned up this project announcement (using perl no less), but it doesn’t appear anything became of it. I expect to make a lot of mistakes on the way, but I expect this to be an application I will use and therefore (hopefully) improve.
The design should be straightforward enough in its first incarnation, and I expect most of my initial learning will be finding the best way for me to develop the application on a hosted server account. The first (only) RoR tuturial I walked through, I did using vi over a SSH terminal. I expect that will get real old, real fast.
Next Step: Find development & deployment tool(s)