我写了一篇名为“Rails入门——我希望知道的事情”的文章，许多人认为这篇文章很有帮助。

基础知识:

使用Rails进行敏捷开发(书籍) 用于Windows上快速ruby/rails环境的InstantRails Aptana作为IDE 用于版本控制的Subversion

在线教程很不错，但很分散。为了更全面的理解，你可以花30美元买一本书。

一旦您的环境启动并运行，这将有助于为您提供用户可以登录的基本应用程序。

带有所有附加功能的Restful身份验证: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=14216&p=1

我目前正在学习RoR，这是我到目前为止所做的: 1. 阅读并遵循SitePoint的“简单Rails 2.2” 2. 阅读并跟随Oreilly的“Rails, Up and Running”第二版。

这两本书很有教育意义，采用了相同的方法，但风格不同;第二本书更激进一些，如果你有一些RoR知识，这是很好的。

如上所述，在阅读资源时要非常小心，有很多过时的视频和文章。

我在很久以前看过臭名昭著的“15分钟写博客”视频，当时Rails大概还在1.0版本左右。关于Ruby/Rails世界最重要的事情之一是，鉴于它是一个伟大的社区，与其他框架相比，它的变化速度快得可笑。

今天，Rails与过去相比有了很大的不同，尽管其主要意识形态一直保持不变。尽管在过去的几年里我学到了很多关于Rails的东西，但我仍然在不断地学习关于它的新东西。

对我来说，帮助我发现并跟上Ruby和Rails的最新方法的最有价值的资源如下:

Rails Guides - A nice way of learning Rails itself, edited by the community, moderated by the core contributors. The site has a lot to offer on most of the important main topics around Rails that it can get you up and running very quickly. It covers bot the most recent stable and edge versions of the framework. If you understand the main ideology of Rails than I definitely recommend checking out (and subscribing to) Ryan Bates' Railscasts. Let me just quote from the site itself, I think it's pretty self explanatory: Every week Ryan Bates will host a new Railscasts episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics target the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well. There are also a lot of podcasts around Ruby/Rails, the two that I keep listening to are Ruby5 and the Ruby Show. For more specific questions like API calls etc, I'd recommend APIDock's Rails and Ruby sections where you can get more information on specific methods. If you are getting more familiar with the framework, it's worth taking a look at Rails Best Practices. There's a bunch of short articles on certain issues that most people make in the beginning of their learning curve with Rails. This site is meant to point pot these issues and help beginners finding their way towards writing better and more well thought out code. There's also a gem that you could use which scans your application and points out these issues and offers solutions/workarounds. Pretty neat!

这些资源应该可以帮助您建立和运行Rails。祝您在Rails世界的旅程中好运，欢迎来到这个社区。

找一个附近的Ruby用户小组并开始参加。我发现，这是一个很好的方法，可以结识许多对开发充满热情并愿意教书的人。

我的步骤是:

* Agile development with Rails (book)
* Railscasts - very useful, always learn something new.
* And of course the RoR API