Ask HN: 'Idea' guy moving in the right direction?

So, I'm an idea guy with no means of attracting a quality tech founder. Yes I have a business degree, but I want more involvement. I want to UNDERSTAND the inner workings of my theoretical products inside and out (Or as best I can, to enhance productivity & communication). I'm a little over a year out of college, and my 9-5 is slowly melting my brain. I am kicking myself for not majoring in CS. My actions are the following: I want to build web apps, in order to hack together a pathetic prototype I have purchased Learn to Program by Chris Pine. It teaches the basics of Ruby, I am then planning on starting Rails with either; --Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial-- or --Agile Web development with Rails-- Opinions? I have varying levels of PS, HTML, CSS, SEO experience. I need to learn some Javascript. Material suggestions? I seriously considered Python/Django, however the web apps that most closely resemble the itch I'm trying to scratch are hiring Rails developers, so that was the biggest decid