学习Ruby的好链接: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming

我发现Obie Fernandez写的《The Rails Way》非常棒，当使用Rails进行敏捷Web开发还不够深入的时候，我经常会参考它。Obie Fernandez也有一个不错的博客。

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》

在guides. Rails .info上阅读所有的指南，从Getting Started with Rails开始。它们写得很好，组织得很好，而且是最新的。

要学习Ruby，请阅读David Black的《The Well-Grounded Rubyist》。它非常清晰，文笔优美，组织有序。这是我读过的最好的技术书籍(大概十几本，因为我是一个相对较新的程序员)。

要学习Rails，请阅读“Head First Rails”。它们解释了所有神秘的部分是如何协同工作的。对这些愚蠢之处要有耐心，并按照自己的方式完成这些例子——它会有回报的。(此外，为了一致性，使用他们使用的任何版本的Rails。您可以稍后升级。)

这两本书都假设你对OOP编程和MVC架构几乎一无所知。如果你确实知道一点，不要略读，因为你可能会错误地假设事情。(例如，Ruby对象没有公共属性，只有getter和setter。但是你可以用一行自动创建多个getter /setter，比如attr_accessor:attr1，:attr2，:attr3。)

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。