Absolutely - and in fact, one of the virtues of the better Rails tutorials is that they do expose you to some of the complexity.
You learn to understand that things are passing between the model and controller, and the rough sequence of things. I've come to appreciate the basics of a RESTful approach, and why things are as they are. I'll of course need to take away the abstraction over time, but without having the abstraction in the first place, I probably wouldnt have started.
That said, I second the point about getting it installed. I shouldn't have to be on StackOverflow for that.
You learn to understand that things are passing between the model and controller, and the rough sequence of things. I've come to appreciate the basics of a RESTful approach, and why things are as they are. I'll of course need to take away the abstraction over time, but without having the abstraction in the first place, I probably wouldnt have started.
That said, I second the point about getting it installed. I shouldn't have to be on StackOverflow for that.