Thanks so much for the compliments!
It took me about 2 weeks to go through Michael Hartl's tutorial, https://www.railstutorial.org/. After I had gone through the tutorial, I still didn't fully grasp some fundamentals like what an MVC framework was; I only figured that out as I started building out my site. I still feel like I can't call myself a developer, since I have a poor understanding of things like JSON and asynchronous stuff.
I had taken an intro course a while ago in college; it was on ANT assembly language and C. So I had some understanding of if/then loops and obscure things like pointers, but I had no understanding of web development and how to create something myself. I also had no knowledge of Javascript or CSS beforehand, and little understanding of HTML. I used Codeacademy to learn the basics, and of course the wonderland, Stack Overflow :)
My next goal is to learn how to create an app, but I haven't found any good resources for that yet.
Let me know if you have any more questions!