Ruby on Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby. Yes you technically could however you would more be learning the framework rather than the language. If you wish to use rails then I highly recommend that you learn the Ruby language and then learn the framework. At least then you understand the language, therefore making it easier to understand the framework.

Ruby on rails is used for server-side website development. The world of computer programming is much wider. I suggest you go for a modern general purpose language like Python. You can still do server-side web development with Python (using a package like Django)

So I've been doing research on making websites and programming. It seems like ruby on rails is the way to go. Seems to have a lot of functionality as far as building e commerce and something similar to uber. So far it seems like ruby is a language part of it. so my question is can i start with this or is php, c++, or python experience needed? Anybody know anyone that only studied ruby on rail?