I find Play to be very fast to develop for so far especially compared to Rails. While I haven't dove deep into either, the workflow in Play is very fast and the syntax is still kept fairly short.

For me, all of my education on Rails came from online tutorials and books which I have been able to learn the basics from, but not enough to get a job with.

How can students like myself without access to classes on web development really learn the subject? And why would anyone hire a web developer from a school that doesn't teach web development?