On: ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development?

consider ruby on rails : http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/13/what_is_rails....

read this : http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

then buy these : http://peepcode.com/products/rails-from-scratch-part-i

So you think I would be able to build a site like this merely through learning RoR?

I was playing around with RoR with Agile Rails by D.H. Hansson etc... Was having problems upgrading my Ruby on my Mac through the command line. I have played around and tinkered but to no avail. I simple havent been able to get it installed.

you could easily make this site (or something very similar) in RoR.

I assume you're on leopard? something like this tutorial should set you up - http://danbenjamin.com/articles/2008/02/ruby-rails-leopard

make sure you install the apple developer tools before doing stuff though. They're on the OS X disk and also on the apple developer connection website.