阻力最小的路径:

Have a simple web project in mind. Go to rubyonrails.org and look at their "Blog in 15 minutes" screencast to get excited. Get a copy of O'Reilly Media's Learning Ruby Get a Mac or Linux box. (Fewer early Rails frustrations due to the fact that Rails is generally developed on these.) Get a copy of Agile Web Development with Rails. Get the version of Ruby and Rails described in that book. Run through that book's first section to get a feel for what it's like. Go to railscasts.com and view at the earliest videos for a closer look. Buy The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez to get a deeper understanding of Rails and what it's doing. Then upgrade to the newest production version of Rails, and view the latest railscasts.com videos.

我从Java到Ruby再到。我发现这个教程很有用http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/to-ruby-from-java/。当谈到学习rails时，我不能说我使用了多少脚本\控制台。它允许您摆弄代码并学习如何做您不确定的事情。

我买过的唯一一本书是《使用Rails的敏捷Web开发》，第三版http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition。它非常有用，并且很好地概述了Rails框架。除此之外，我还经常看Railscasts(http://railscasts.com)，这是一个很棒的屏幕筛选博客，涵盖了各种Rails主题。

我个人更喜欢使用Linux(因为git工作得更好)。但是，我也使用过windows和git，我不认为操作系统的选择会影响你的编程。

我在我的IDE中使用netbeans，偶尔也使用vim(带有rails插件)。我喜欢netbeans，但是当涉及到Rails支持时，我发现它仍然有点不靠谱(不是所有的特性都能一直工作)。

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby Bruno R. Preiss | Published in 2004 Learn to Program Chris Pine | Pragmatic Bookshelf Published in 2006, 176 pages Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book Jeremy McAnally | Published in 2006, 147 pages Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide David Thomas, Andrew Hunt | Addison-Wesley Published in 2000, 608 pages Rails in a Nutshell C. Fauser, J. MacAulay, E. Ocampo-Gooding, J. Guenin | O'Reilly Media Published in 2009, 352 pages Ruby Best Practices Gregory T. Brown | O'Reilly Media Published in 2009, 328 pages Ruby Essentials | Techotopia Published in 2007 Ruby on Rails Security Heiko Webers | OWASP Published in 2009, 48 pages Ruby User's Guide Mark Slagell | Published in 2005 The Book Of Ruby Huw Collingbourne | Published in 2009, 425 pages The Little Book of Ruby Huw Collingbourne | Dark Neon Ltd. Published in 2008, 87 pages why's (poignant) guide to Ruby why the lucky stiff | Published in 2008

我在Neighborly先生的《谦逊的红宝石小书》的帮助下学会了Ruby。这是一个很好的免费下载的Ruby介绍，有很多例子，我100%推荐。

对于像我这样从PHP转到RoR的人来说，这看起来是一个很好的资源

http://railsforphp.com/还有一本书《Rails for PHP Developers》

请注意，rails世界充斥着大量令人沮丧的过时且不一致的文档和示例。它可能是发展最快、最流行的开发社区之一。当你学到一些东西的时候，它已经改变了。甚至书中所讨论的rails版本也不一致。通过博客记录!足够的说。

我目前在windows上做RoR。我的建议是尽量避开窗户。很多东西都不起作用，rails社区真的真的不关心你。迁移到Git真的把我搞得一团糟，因为它在windows上不能很好地工作。很多宝石会因此而失败(Heroku看起来像一个很酷的工具-对我来说太糟糕了，它不能处理window的Git设置)。卡皮斯特拉诺出局了。这种情况继续下去，令人恼火。

Plus, in the back of your mind, you always wonder when something doesn't work "Is it a rails/windows problem?" I am not sure this is solved by using linux because linux brings its own hassles like constantly having to upgrade all those different dependencies, etc...If that's the kind of thing you enjoy it might be an okay choice for you. Those days of enjoying system fiddling are behind me and I just want to get on with doing my work. I am planning on installing ubuntu on a home machine just so i can get familiar with things like capistrano so maybe my opinion will change.

我强烈建议，如果你打算做rails开发，你应该认真考虑购买一台Mac。如果你珍惜你的时间和理智，它几乎会立即得到回报。你花了10个小时调试windows/linux安装问题，这取决于你如何评估你的时间，你花的钱和Mac电脑的钱一样多。

与它所取代的东西相比，Rails是一种乐趣，但它也有点痛苦，因为它的支持者跳过了许多无聊但重要的东西，如文档、兼容性问题和社区建设。它比Django等其他框架强大得多，但有时我在看Django的文档和社区时，会像一个有狂野性感女友的男人看着他朋友平凡但理智稳定的妻子一样叹息。但是后来rails添加了一个特性，我惊叹道:“哦，太棒了!”

在我看来，Rails的截图比Peepcode的截图要好。RubyPlus也有截图，注意，它们有点粗糙。BuildingWebApps有一个免费的在线课程，课程进行到一半就开始截屏。