Learning Rails and learning patience

When I first sat down to learn Rails, I thought, "A week, maybe two... ." 

Yeah, right!

I've now learned that watching a 1hr 20min tutorial video from Michael Hartl will take me about a day.  That's including:

• pausing and rewinding to catch up (typing) and to be sure I understand.
• verifying locally and on Heroku that everything is working right
  (I'm still leary of Heroku, see my previous posts.)
• flipping back-and-forth between the video and the PDF versions (especially where there might be large CSS to copy-and-paste.
• taking regular breaks to shake my head (and make sure that I can remember what I just read/did).

So, I'm learning that patience (with persistence) is my best combination.
... that and keeping a window to StackOverflow.com open for any weirdness that creeps up!