I am highly considering joining the codeacademy , however, i know nothing about coding nor have I ever used Ruby/Rails before. Is this something I'll be able to pick up on in 12weeks ? Any advice out there?
First of all, at this moment Codecademy only teaches Javascript, so you don't need any Ruby knowledge.
Also, I think it has several "Start Programming" lessons for starters... It should be a good starting point.
The OP is talking about codeacademy.org, it is not the same as codeacademy.com the YC company.