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。

哦，我差点忘了。下面是更多的Ruby截屏资源:

SD Ruby——他们在网上有很多视频——我发现他们的Rest演讲SD9和SD10是最好的介绍之一。其他休息演讲假设你无所不知。这些都是非常介绍性和切题的。

Obie Fernandez谈InfoQ - Restful Rails。我也读过他的《Rails Way》一书，发现它内容丰富，但冗长而曲折，质量也有点不稳定。我从这本书中学到了很多东西，但我觉得为了读到好的部分而阅读重复的和不相关的东西有点惩罚人。

Netbeans是一个很好的手把手IDE，如果你有耐心等待它的工具提示，它可以教你很多语言技巧(即使在非常快的机器上，它也是一个非常慢的IDE)，你可以使用IDE以图形化的方式浏览可用的生成器和类似的东西。获得最新的版本，甚至还内置了Rspec测试。

波特是一个预先构建的基础应用程序，其中已经插入了许多标准插件。如果你下载并试用它，弄清楚它是如何设置的，你就已经在创建自己的全功能应用程序的半路上了。

我认为来自Peepcode的截屏和短书真的很好。他们有一些截图让你开始学习，当你更深入的时候也会有一些。

有一个叫Softies on Rails的网站，是由几个前程序员编写的。NET开发人员可能会有一些用处。他们有一本书叫《Rails for .NET开发者》，将在接下来的几个月出版……

我开始在一个Windows盒子上使用Eclipse的RadRails插件和Dreamweaver的RubyWeaver扩展(回到1。x天的Rails)。从那以后，我换了一台运行TextMate的Mac电脑，再也没有想过回去。

至于书籍，我从《Ruby之路》和《Rails敏捷Web开发》开始。在您开始Rails开发时，构建Ruby背景无疑会有所帮助。

一定要看瑞恩·贝茨的Railscast系列。

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.

毫无疑问

使用Rails进行敏捷Web开发

and

推荐手册

为了好玩

高级Rails食谱

我想链接到另外两个，但Stack Overflow不允许。查看同一网站。