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。

实际上，我有一篇关于如何开始使用rails的文章应该会有所帮助。你的问题中唯一没有涉及到的是操作系统。不管你信不信，Mac是这里的主导者!但是我很喜欢使用Ubuntu。有gedit插件让你非常接近TextMate -事实上，我更喜欢gedit。

如果你在一台windows机器上，可以使用linux，这绝对是一个更好的方法。Windows上的Rails有很多问题。

学习任何东西(包括Ruby on Rails)的最快方法是结对编程。

找一个懂Rails的人，选择一个示例应用程序，坐下来，解决bug，添加功能。

知识共享是不可思议的。

您可以尝试的另一个IDE是Aptana。

我在Mac OS上使用RoR和textmate编程，这很棒。

我建议“Programming Ruby 1.9”(The Pickaxe Book) for Ruby and Agile Web Development with Rails”来学习Rails，两者都是由Pragmatic Bookshelf出版的。

好运！

这里有一些很棒的建议!

我将列出的一些资源已经被提到，一些我认为没有。我肯定还不是一个专业选手，我只是在过去的几个月里一直在学习，我的进步速度很快。这是帮助我的顺序:

Why's poignant guide to ruby: excellent introduction to the Ruby language by the infamous _why. Agile web development with rails book: great book with some good in-depth follow alongs Rails tutorial by Michael Hartl (railstutotrial.org): this has been my favorite resource. Hartl's style of walking you through demo apps and explaining everything just made things click for me. Rails for Zombies - ran through this twice, great for reinforcing the basics. Railscasts - I started following this along at first, but they were not helpful until now that I am just really starting to grasp Rails. I would leave these for the end after you have got your feet wet. Think Vitamin's rails tutorials were also pretty good. I followed along these screen casts at first, to feel out the language and then did them again towards the end. The "Learning Rails" podcast, although outdated (Rails 2) was also a good starting resource. I listened to this while driving/working out.

我希望这对你有帮助!我远不是专业人士，但我一头扎进去，尽可能多地从各种资源中汲取。我上面提到的方法是最有帮助的!

哦，现在真正对我有帮助的是制定个人项目和设置特定的任务。跟着做很好，但是当你在没有向导的情况下潜入时，你才能真正学到东西!