试试这本书http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

和你一样，我是一名java/ c#开发人员，试图学习更多的Ruby On Rails。

我正在学习免费的在线课程《Ruby on Rails Programming with Passion》，这是一门很好的入门课程，可以去看看。

我们使用NetBeans作为IDE (win/mac/linux/solaris)，如果你习惯Eclipse或Visual Studio，你很有可能会喜欢它。

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。

我同意srboisvert的观点。不要在Windows上操作。您可以将Ubuntu (Linux版本)添加到Windows并进行双启动。这需要一些工作，但这比违背常理，试图让所有事情都在寡妇身上工作要容易得多。

Ubuntu, Heroku和Git工作得很出色。要知道学习曲线一开始是陡峭的。从Guru.com或Elance上雇佣一些人来帮助你。

此外，在Mac上运行Textmate是首选的解决方案，所以如果你正在考虑购买一台Mac或有机会使用一台Mac，这是最好的选择。我认为你不需要太多的计算能力……

最后，我最喜欢的书是《Agile Web Development for Rails》。谷歌搜索并不能很好地工作，因为大多数信息来自旧版本的Rails，已经被弃用或不能工作。

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》

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。