我在Mac OS上使用RoR和textmate编程，这很棒。

我建议“Programming Ruby 1.9”(The Pickaxe Book) for Ruby and Agile Web Development with Rails”来学习Rails，两者都是由Pragmatic Bookshelf出版的。

好运！

神奇的决定!在学习Rails之前，先了解Ruby是非常有用的，所以下面是我对学习Rails的最佳途径的看法:

Learn to Program by Chris Pine - You can read this in an afternoon to get a feel for the Ruby language. The Well Grounded Rubyist by David Black - Like the title says it will give you an excellent grounding in the language. Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen - This book is sublime, it reads like a novel. Ruby Best Practices by Gregory Brown - By this point you should be ready for the advanced level of this book. Rails for Zombies - Fun tutorial you can complete in an afternoon. Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl - Fantastic (and free) tutorial and I have heard his accompanying screencasts are amazing. Agile Web Development with Rails by Sam Ruby - By the time you are finished this you are now a completely capable Rails person!

除了书本之外，最重要的是获得对你所做事情的反馈。要做到这一点，我建议花时间在irc.freenode.net #ruby和#rubyonrails。在stackoverflow上发布你正在做的事情或遇到的麻烦也是非常有用的，因为人们提供的评论、解释和不同的思考方式是非常宝贵的。

你也一定要看看Ruby Rogues播客，他们提供了宝贵的信息，评论员都是Ruby社区里非常受人尊敬的人。为了让你的观看和阅读乐趣(按此顺序)，请前往瑞恩·贝茨的《Railscasts》和艾菲恩·贝德福德的《Asciicasts》。

最后，我建议在github上寻找不同的宝石，阅读代码，然后为它们做出贡献。你不必过于雄心勃勃，做大量的重新编码，尤其是在刚开始的时候。只要从一些小事情开始，比如编辑和使README文件更容易阅读。

我不使用IDE，但在Railsconf上我看到了Jetbrains的Rubymine演示，它看起来非常棒。

任何Rails的uber源都是http://www.rubyonrails.org/，如果站点上没有，你可能不需要它。

一个快速的食谱是Ruby on Rails: Up and Running，你可以从O'Rielly或搜索谷歌获得在线版本。他们带你了解Rails的约定，并使用Instant Rails，这是可以的。

更好的Rails书籍“敏捷Web开发与Rails”，这是Rails的汤到坚果。它会引导你下载和设置Rails、Gems等等。

如果你是一个Java“家伙”，想要一本过渡的书O' reilly有“Rails for Java Developers”http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780977616695/?CMP=AFC-ak_book&ATT=Rails+for+Java+Developers

毫无疑问

使用Rails进行敏捷Web开发

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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。

Ruby: 我用过Learn to programming(在一个周末)，Ruby Visual QuickStart(信不信由你) 书是“脱离困境”优秀)。这花了大约一周的时间。

Rails: 我刚刚在一个“积极”的星期里完成了Learn Rails。我觉得我已经掌握了所有的细节。这是我认为重要的2009年!

现在我计划将一本更高级的书与一个真实的项目结合起来。

IDE: VIM与rails插件是伟大的，如果你是一个VIM上瘾。否则，试试上面的建议。

当然，铁路广播等，是有用的大多数最新的东西。

My first suggestion would be to learn a little about symbols first. Rails isn't the smallest framework ever, and while there's definitely lots to learn, most of it will start to make sense if you have at least a little bit of understanding what makes it different ("special") from other languages. As pointed out, there's no exact analog in any of the major languages, but they're heavily used by Rails, in order to make things read straightforwardly and perform well, which is the reason I brought it up. My very first exposure to Rails was also my first time looking at Ruby (well before 2.0), and the first thing that caught my eye was the goofy :things they were passing around, and I asked, "WTF is that?"

另外，看看RubyQuiz，并在那个网站上阅读其他人的答案。