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.

一旦您的环境启动并运行，这将有助于为您提供用户可以登录的基本应用程序。

带有所有附加功能的Restful身份验证: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=14216&p=1

我以前在windows上用Java和c#编程。

我赞同这些来源:

IDE:尝试Apatana RadRails 3预览:http://www.radrails.org/3。它是最接近Visual Studio的东西。我偶尔会使用它，但仍然喜欢Textmate的轻盈感。

OS: Mac OS从Ruby社区得到了最多的爱。其他的都被当作私生子对待。

书:

实用程序员指南(十字镐书) 使用Rails进行敏捷Web开发

视频:

Peepcode (pay)是一种快速掌握概念的好方法 Railscasts(免费)是一个很好的方法，每周获取新的宝石和概念增量 Railscasts(专业版)也是一种以相当低的价格获取概念的好方法。

Ruby: 我用过Learn to programming(在一个周末)，Ruby Visual QuickStart(信不信由你) 书是“脱离困境”优秀)。这花了大约一周的时间。

Rails: 我刚刚在一个“积极”的星期里完成了Learn Rails。我觉得我已经掌握了所有的细节。这是我认为重要的2009年!

现在我计划将一本更高级的书与一个真实的项目结合起来。

IDE: VIM与rails插件是伟大的，如果你是一个VIM上瘾。否则，试试上面的建议。

当然，铁路广播等，是有用的大多数最新的东西。

任何Rails的uber源都是http://www.rubyonrails.org/，如果站点上没有，你可能不需要它。

一个快速的食谱是Ruby on Rails: Up and Running，你可以从O'Rielly或搜索谷歌获得在线版本。他们带你了解Rails的约定，并使用Instant Rails，这是可以的。

更好的Rails书籍“敏捷Web开发与Rails”，这是Rails的汤到坚果。它会引导你下载和设置Rails、Gems等等。

如果你是一个Java“家伙”，想要一本过渡的书O' reilly有“Rails for Java Developers”http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780977616695/?CMP=AFC-ak_book&ATT=Rails+for+Java+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。