I spent a bit of time working through tutorials (Hartl, Codeacademy) and in the end managed to spew out a [semi-functional site](http://wishlinks.binary-organism.com/). Its not great, but figured it might be of use to someone,somewhere for learning. It uses twitter-bootstrap and some basic jQuery.
The premise was a bit selfish - I mainly use it to store links to cool items I come across. I ended up wrapping it up in a wish list type site in-case anyone else wanted to use it. There were a few functions I was going to include but haven't gotten around to and moved on to trying something new.
The [code](https://github.com/SinFulNard/potenial_present) is on GitHub if you want to take a look and I'm happy to answer any questions (but really, StackOverflow is your friend).
Would be interested to see other sites people have produced dropped in this sub.
Did you know any ruby before using Hartl’s book, or code academy? How long did it take you to accomplish this site? I like how other than signing up, or sign in the app is all on one page. I am trying to make static web apps with Rails but lack jQuery. Any suggestions, also do you have a link to github?