Ruby & Rails Jumpstart - here's what we're working towards

Ruby proficiency (via Textmate, command-line, and possibly browser-based interpreter)

RVM ruby management
Ruby language fluency: classes, functions, methods, loops, conditionals
Command-line execution of ruby scripts
Textmate for Ruby editing

Web app proficiency (via Sinatra, with browser & command-line access)

Raw HTML, CSS & JavaScript
Ruby (server-side) programming
JavaScript (browser-side) programming
Chrome (developer tools)
Curl (command-line)

Rails proficiency

HAML
Compass & SCSS
Coffeescript
Controllers
Models & ActiveRecord
Models & ActiveRest