我很惊讶为什么很少提到Ruby指南。Why可能已经不在了，但是这个指南很容易在网上找到(谷歌点在这里)，它是一个非常简单的阅读，提供了我对Ruby的介绍。

在这份指南之后，我将推荐其他人推荐的书籍之一，或者跟随学习Rails的系列视频，这是我如何学会足够多的Ruby on Rails的。一旦你完成了学习Rails系列。你想用Rails做的事情将开始与一般的教程有所不同，这就是Railscasts成为一个很棒的工具的地方。Railscasts在某些方面没有涉及到Rails可以做的事情。

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。

Railscasts shmailcasts… 1. 想想你想要开发的应用类型。 2. 花20分钟整理一些用户流程 3.带着你的项目去阅读“使用Rails进行敏捷Web开发”的前几章 4. 在windows或mac电脑上安装Netbeans和rails。两者都是一样的。 5. 开发你的应用 6. 在开发过程中，请查阅大量在线参考资料。

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。

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。

有一个叫Softies on Rails的网站，是由几个前程序员编写的。NET开发人员可能会有一些用处。他们有一本书叫《Rails for .NET开发者》，将在接下来的几个月出版……

我开始在一个Windows盒子上使用Eclipse的RadRails插件和Dreamweaver的RubyWeaver扩展(回到1。x天的Rails)。从那以后，我换了一台运行TextMate的Mac电脑，再也没有想过回去。

至于书籍，我从《Ruby之路》和《Rails敏捷Web开发》开始。在您开始Rails开发时，构建Ruby背景无疑会有所帮助。

一定要看瑞恩·贝茨的Railscast系列。