我没有编程背景。我自学了PHP，最近加入了一家专门研究Ruby on Rails的公司。他们有一个全面的Rails培训计划，它足够灵活，可以适应我们想要实现的任何更改。虽然我不是rails专家，但我愿意分享我使用rails的经验。我希望这能有所帮助。

以下是我所遵循的路径(结合我所使用的工具)

Start with a simple ruby guide. It will help a lot, since entire rails framework revolves around classes and objects. Environment and OS are not important. Though I am working on a Mac, I frequently work on Linux and Windows, and I do not face any problems. Start with a good book which explains using a demo app. [I am using Agile Web Development with Rails - By The Pragmatic Bookshelf]. There are many other good books as well. Once you are done with the application, you will have a good idea of the framework. Try to understand the SQL queries generated by Active Record module. Go through the Rails Guides. You will find the framework a lot easier. Keep practicing.

几个关键点

It takes years to learn a language completely. So be patient and do not stop learning. Go through rails api as when required. [While developing your first app] Google the things which you do not understand. People have written great articles on almost all topics. Use Stackoverflow :-) [Only when you are not able to find the solution on your own.] Load railscasts on your phone or video player. Watch 'em while travelling or in your free time. They are of few minutes each. You will learn a great deal of things and also learn the best way of doing things.

工具

Shell[在Mac和Ubuntu中] 编辑器[Mac中的Textmate, Ubuntu中的Gedit和Windows中的notepad++] 安装了Firebug的Firefox进行测试。

最后我有一句话要说“继续努力”。愿一切都好！

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。

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。

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。

这也是一本好书 http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

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)。