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。

我买了Patrick Lenz写的《Simply Rails 2》。 这本书是对Ruby和Ruby on Rails的很好的介绍。 至于我的ruby安装和db，我使用Cygwin。 它与PostgreSQL, ruby和svn一起提供。 我喜欢PostgreSQL，因为我来自Oracle 所以它感觉比MySQL更舒服。

我发现另一个非常有用的实用程序是pgAdmin 访问PostgreSQL数据库。

我需要做的第一件事就是安装宝石。 我从鲁比弗吉拿了宝石tar文件 wget“http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz”

设置好宝石后，我就开始安装

rails ruby-postgres postgres 架

我还需要一个问题跟踪系统，所以我安装了redmine。 wget“http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz”

我发现使用类unix环境(Cygwin)是很困难的 对我来说更可取，因为许多教程都是这样 泰勒为OS X或Linux。

我使用的文本编辑器是Textpad。我正在寻找替代方案。 我认为带有rails插件的vim可能工作得很好。

您可以尝试的另一个IDE是Aptana。

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。

试试这本书http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

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。