I have got up to speed with Ruby on Rails fairly quickly via this free online course which is currently being offered by UC Berkeley - Software as a Service - Engineering Long Lasting Software with instruction by Armando Fox and David Patterson. I can't speak highly enough of this course... it really was a privilege to learn Rails from these guys. And there is an active community on the course forums if you run into difficulty along the way. The first offering of the online course has now finished (as of 25 March, 2012) - the next time it will be run will be sometime in September of 2012.

It assumes you are a fairly competent developer and gets you started on ruby in the second week, then Rails runs from the third week up to the end of the course (five weeks). Your assignments are marked by an auto-grader. You get provided with a pre-built Ubuntu VM image with everything you need for development pre-installed on it (e.g. Ruby, Rails, Rake, Gems, RSPec, Cucumber, etc). All you have to do is start up the VM inside the (free) VirtualBox software which runs on MacOSX, Windows and Linux.

这门课有一本推荐教材。在这里……但是你可以在网上看讲座和视频。

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。

这里有一些很棒的建议!

我将列出的一些资源已经被提到，一些我认为没有。我肯定还不是一个专业选手，我只是在过去的几个月里一直在学习，我的进步速度很快。这是帮助我的顺序:

Why's poignant guide to ruby: excellent introduction to the Ruby language by the infamous _why. Agile web development with rails book: great book with some good in-depth follow alongs Rails tutorial by Michael Hartl (railstutotrial.org): this has been my favorite resource. Hartl's style of walking you through demo apps and explaining everything just made things click for me. Rails for Zombies - ran through this twice, great for reinforcing the basics. Railscasts - I started following this along at first, but they were not helpful until now that I am just really starting to grasp Rails. I would leave these for the end after you have got your feet wet. Think Vitamin's rails tutorials were also pretty good. I followed along these screen casts at first, to feel out the language and then did them again towards the end. The "Learning Rails" podcast, although outdated (Rails 2) was also a good starting resource. I listened to this while driving/working out.

我希望这对你有帮助!我远不是专业人士，但我一头扎进去，尽可能多地从各种资源中汲取。我上面提到的方法是最有帮助的!

哦，现在真正对我有帮助的是制定个人项目和设置特定的任务。跟着做很好，但是当你在没有向导的情况下潜入时，你才能真正学到东西!

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。

书:奥比·费尔南德斯的《铁路之路》 IDE: Netbeans或TextMate。

只有+1敏捷Web开发与Rails(尽管确保您获得最新版本)- http://pragprog.com/

我在Mac上开发，这有时是有益的——它是Rails开发人员非常流行的平台，所以你看到的许多博客文章都是面向Mac的。不过Linux也很棒;)

最后——我和公司一点关系都没有——当你有东西想要直播时，heroku是一个不错的选择。找到一个便宜的rails主机并不容易，所以这是一个很好的起点。不过，还有很多其他优秀的主持人!Heroku确实需要git来进行版本控制(尽管您可以在subversion之上使用它)。

祝你好运!