Personally, I think the best approach to learning RoR is to learn the basics of Ruby first, then move on to Rails. It also helps to work on your own project.
Tutorials are ok, but I find them more useful as a tool to see how someone else would approach a particular problem, as opposed to a learning tool. The reason I say that is because many tutorials breeze through important concepts for the sake of brevity.
Picking a simple project and using books or online info to work through the process is, in my opinion, the best way to actually learn. Once you have a grasp on the language, start looking for good code examples and study those. In the end, the more you read and write code, the better you'll be. I'd say you could certainly make good headway in a week with a schedule like you describe.
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Personally, I think the best approach to learning RoR is to learn the basics of Ruby first, then move on to Rails. It also helps to work on your own project.
Tutorials are ok, but I find them more useful as a tool to see how someone else would approach a particular problem, as opposed to a learning tool. The reason I say that is because many tutorials breeze through important concepts for the sake of brevity.
Picking a simple project and using books or online info to work through the process is, in my opinion, the best way to actually learn. Once you have a grasp on the language, start looking for good code examples and study those. In the end, the more you read and write code, the better you'll be. I'd say you could certainly make good headway in a week with a schedule like you describe.