我从Java到Ruby再到。我发现这个教程很有用http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/to-ruby-from-java/。当谈到学习rails时，我不能说我使用了多少脚本\控制台。它允许您摆弄代码并学习如何做您不确定的事情。

我买过的唯一一本书是《使用Rails的敏捷Web开发》，第三版http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition。它非常有用，并且很好地概述了Rails框架。除此之外，我还经常看Railscasts(http://railscasts.com)，这是一个很棒的屏幕筛选博客，涵盖了各种Rails主题。

我个人更喜欢使用Linux(因为git工作得更好)。但是，我也使用过windows和git，我不认为操作系统的选择会影响你的编程。

我在我的IDE中使用netbeans，偶尔也使用vim(带有rails插件)。我喜欢netbeans，但是当涉及到Rails支持时，我发现它仍然有点不靠谱(不是所有的特性都能一直工作)。

我的公司已经开发了三年的知识管理和决策支持平台mavenlive.com。在过去的几年里，我们学到了很多关于rails的知识，下面是我的一些建议。

Switch to Mac! The tools that are available to you and the development environment on Mac allows you to be far more productive than on Windows. railcasts.com has a wealth of informative screencasts from beginner to expert. You can always find new and more efficient ways of doing things from Ryan's posts. Scaling Rails screencasts coupled with NewRelic has provided powerful insight into the performance of our application and allows us to develop effectively while keeping our eyes open for future scalability issues.

再等几个月，Simon St. Laurent和Edd Dumbill的《Learning Rails》将于11月问世。那一系列的书是惊人的，这本书将涵盖Rails的最新版本。

只有+1敏捷Web开发与Rails(尽管确保您获得最新版本)- http://pragprog.com/

我在Mac上开发，这有时是有益的——它是Rails开发人员非常流行的平台，所以你看到的许多博客文章都是面向Mac的。不过Linux也很棒;)

最后——我和公司一点关系都没有——当你有东西想要直播时，heroku是一个不错的选择。找到一个便宜的rails主机并不容易，所以这是一个很好的起点。不过，还有很多其他优秀的主持人!Heroku确实需要git来进行版本控制(尽管您可以在subversion之上使用它)。

祝你好运!

我的步骤是:

* Agile development with Rails (book)
* Railscasts - very useful, always learn something new.
* And of course the RoR API

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.