Having a hard time putting everything together to create my own codes

It sounds like you have a lot of practice but it's all been practice at following directions. Spend some time just building little scripts for yourself that scratch niggling itches. Make a script that'll remind you X minutes ahead to something. Turn that into a Pomodoro timer or something.

Or, you know, don't since now you're just following instructions again :)

The best way I've found to get good at doing something on your own is to do it on your own, repeatedly. Yes, you'll suck and screw up a bunch, but you'll get that out of the way now and start doing amazing things.

Awesome advice Kenneth! I've been trying to do problems on my own and the tough part(as a "beginner programmer is understanding what's happening in every step of the code block. I guess all I can really do is to grind it out! I'll definitely try to build my own projects

And if it's not to much for you, get the habit of using a VCS (Version Control System) like GitHub for instance. It's an awesome way to keep track on your progress and bugs. :)

Set your own projects, something you think would be useful. As Kenneth suggested start with simple tasks first. Just something you'd like to be able to accomplish. Not from a coding point of view but from point of view of a user, what would you find useful? Then start breaking that down into something you could actually code. Don't be afraid to make something clunky and inefficient as long as you start getting something and applying what you know. Even if it doesn't work, finding out why it doesn't work can be valuable knowledge and skill learning.

I struggled with the same thing not only with Ruby but with JavaScript until I watched the Jquery course here on treehouse and one thing I picked up and started to do on all languages is to write out plain text comments this can be done on your text editor or plain pen and paper. On them I break down the major problem/goal/feature into smaller bits so that instead of looking at my main goal and not knowing how I am going to get there I can see everything in plain text and much easily translate that into code. Over time I hope it just becomes natural and I won't have to use this as much. Give this a try if your not already doing it it has helped me a lot.