New programmer, just finished ruby basics and ruby foundation

I would recommend doing both Console Foundations and Git Basics.

Though I think Git is non-essential during the Ruby Track, it's still an extremely valuable thing to know, and probably applicable in the Rails project. As for Console Foundations, it's very important to know how to perform tasks in the console.

This depends on what you want to achieve? I work as a full stack developer and would suggest you start playing around with rails as you will be able to apply some of the ruby code youve learnt and create an actual website using it.

I havent been able to read you previous blog post as there is no link but im guessing your in a similar situation to me when i was first playing around with ruby. Youve built a couple of simple programs or maybe even just used the console to save a few variables and extract them from an array but dont know exactly where to go next and want further direction. I would strongly suggest trying some of the rails courses Build a to list or Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application. If not then also try the getting started guide here which you can work fairly quickly completing tasks without fully understanding the magic rails provides RailsGuide:Blog.

This all depends what your trying to achieve with your programming? do you have any experience with HTML or CSS, if thats the case then definitely work through as many of those as possible to understand styling websites or writing markup. I know its not everybody's cup of tea but it gave me a better understanding seeing the Frontend working before hitting the Backend hard!

Console Foundations and Git Basics are a must in the long term, because whoever employs you, they will expect you to know how to use at least one version control system (and understanding one of them makes it easier to learn others if need be; just like with programming languages). Also, you will probably work on Linux or Mac sooner or later (or use some kind of emulation for console commands in Windows), so feeling comfortable in the Console is also a must. You will also need JavaScript (it's covered in both the basic programming course on Treehouse and in JavaScript Foundations), know your way around CSS and jQuery as well. You can start Rails anytime you want, but be prepared for a rough ride - the learning curve will suddenly get steep and you will need to search a lot in other resources to really understand what is being done and said in the videos.