http://www.teachmetocode.com是学习Ruby和Ruby on Rails的绝佳来源。这里有一些介绍Rails基础知识的屏幕视频，还有一个由6部分组成的系列，介绍如何使用Ruby on Rails创建Twitter克隆版。

您可以尝试的另一个IDE是Aptana。

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

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。

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。

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。