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。

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。

我在Neighborly先生的《谦逊的红宝石小书》的帮助下学会了Ruby。这是一个很好的免费下载的Ruby介绍，有很多例子，我100%推荐。

在我的职业生涯中，我已经从c#转向了Ruby和RoR，在我的个人生活中，我发现linux对开发来说更有吸引力一些。特别是现在我已经开始使用git，在linux上的实现更加清晰。

目前我正在双启动，接近于全职运行Ubuntu。我在开发环境中使用gedit和各种插件。从2010年底开始，我开始推动使用Vim进行开发，甚至在OS X上使用Textmate。

大量的Rails开发人员正在使用mac，这实际上让我开始思考这个方向。

虽然我还没有尝试过，但是Ruby in Steel为您提供了一个Visual Studio世界中的Ruby IDE，如果您感兴趣的话，IronRuby是Ruby的. net版本。

就书籍而言，Pragmatic Programmers的《Programming Ruby》(也被称为Pickaxe)是学习Ruby的实际教材。我咬紧牙关，买了那本书和《Rails敏捷Web开发》;这两本书都很棒。

窥码截屏和PDF书籍也很适合入门;每次9美元的截屏费用很难出错。我其实买了五瓶装的。

还可以查看以下内容:

官方铁路指南 Railscasts railsapi.com或Ruby on Rails - APIdock 红宝石秀 面向僵尸的Rails Softies on Rails -面向。net开发者的Ruby on Rails Rails播客 Rails最佳实践

在过去的一个月里，我已经浏览了Rails和Rails Envy播客的积压，它们提供了许多主题的精彩见解，甚至是关于一般的软件开发。

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

我认为来自Peepcode的截屏和短书真的很好。他们有一些截图让你开始学习，当你更深入的时候也会有一些。