对于像我这样从PHP转到RoR的人来说，这看起来是一个很好的资源

http://railsforphp.com/还有一本书《Rails for PHP Developers》

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby Bruno R. Preiss | Published in 2004 Learn to Program Chris Pine | Pragmatic Bookshelf Published in 2006, 176 pages Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book Jeremy McAnally | Published in 2006, 147 pages Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide David Thomas, Andrew Hunt | Addison-Wesley Published in 2000, 608 pages Rails in a Nutshell C. Fauser, J. MacAulay, E. Ocampo-Gooding, J. Guenin | O'Reilly Media Published in 2009, 352 pages Ruby Best Practices Gregory T. Brown | O'Reilly Media Published in 2009, 328 pages Ruby Essentials | Techotopia Published in 2007 Ruby on Rails Security Heiko Webers | OWASP Published in 2009, 48 pages Ruby User's Guide Mark Slagell | Published in 2005 The Book Of Ruby Huw Collingbourne | Published in 2009, 425 pages The Little Book of Ruby Huw Collingbourne | Dark Neon Ltd. Published in 2008, 87 pages why's (poignant) guide to Ruby why the lucky stiff | Published in 2008

这里有很多好意见。我要加上这里没有的。我的经验:

Rails on Windows is easy to get going with RailsInstaller, especially if you're using SQLite. If you want to use Ruby gems which need C extensions (e.g. RMagick), installation is difficult and unpredictable. PostgreSQL is a pain to install on Windows, and a pain to hook up to Rails. git doesn't work quite right on Windows. IDEs are bulky (Aptana). Notepad++ is good enough. Rails on Ubuntu is easy, and gems requiring C libraries just work. If your computer is powerful enough, use VirtualBox or VMWare Player, and use an Ubuntu Virtual Machine.

设置资源

本页面展示了如何在Ubuntu 11.10上安装Ruby/Rails/PostgreSQL。 如果你不喜欢RVM(我不喜欢)，使用rbenv。RVM和rbenv是用于管理多个Ruby版本的工具，包括JRuby、Rubinius等。

用于开发/测试的实时部署

实时部署可以让你的朋友试用你的应用。它也可以让你更容易与需要回调到Rails服务器的web服务交互(如PayPal IPN或Twilio)。 Heroku.com是我最喜欢部署的地方。 localtunnel.com是一个很好的实用工具，可以将一个公开可见的URL指向本地Rails服务器。(我只在基于windows的Rails服务器上使用它)。

学习

试试网上的教程。 使用stackoverflow.com来提问。 使用“raise Exception, params”。to_s”在你的控制器中停止应用程序，打印出驱动你的控制器的所有参数。这让我对如何在Rails应用程序中来回传输数据有了最深刻的了解。 使用Rails控制台(“Rails控制台”)检查数据，并在将代码片段嵌入模型或控制器之前试用它们。

我写了一篇名为“Rails入门——我希望知道的事情”的文章，许多人认为这篇文章很有帮助。

基础知识:

使用Rails进行敏捷开发(书籍) 用于Windows上快速ruby/rails环境的InstantRails Aptana作为IDE 用于版本控制的Subversion

在线教程很不错，但很分散。为了更全面的理解，你可以花30美元买一本书。

我目前正在学习RoR，这是我到目前为止所做的: 1. 阅读并遵循SitePoint的“简单Rails 2.2” 2. 阅读并跟随Oreilly的“Rails, Up and Running”第二版。

这两本书很有教育意义，采用了相同的方法，但风格不同;第二本书更激进一些，如果你有一些RoR知识，这是很好的。

如上所述，在阅读资源时要非常小心，有很多过时的视频和文章。

我没有编程背景。我自学了PHP，最近加入了一家专门研究Ruby on Rails的公司。他们有一个全面的Rails培训计划，它足够灵活，可以适应我们想要实现的任何更改。虽然我不是rails专家，但我愿意分享我使用rails的经验。我希望这能有所帮助。

以下是我所遵循的路径(结合我所使用的工具)

Start with a simple ruby guide. It will help a lot, since entire rails framework revolves around classes and objects. Environment and OS are not important. Though I am working on a Mac, I frequently work on Linux and Windows, and I do not face any problems. Start with a good book which explains using a demo app. [I am using Agile Web Development with Rails - By The Pragmatic Bookshelf]. There are many other good books as well. Once you are done with the application, you will have a good idea of the framework. Try to understand the SQL queries generated by Active Record module. Go through the Rails Guides. You will find the framework a lot easier. Keep practicing.

几个关键点

It takes years to learn a language completely. So be patient and do not stop learning. Go through rails api as when required. [While developing your first app] Google the things which you do not understand. People have written great articles on almost all topics. Use Stackoverflow :-) [Only when you are not able to find the solution on your own.] Load railscasts on your phone or video player. Watch 'em while travelling or in your free time. They are of few minutes each. You will learn a great deal of things and also learn the best way of doing things.

工具

Shell[在Mac和Ubuntu中] 编辑器[Mac中的Textmate, Ubuntu中的Gedit和Windows中的notepad++] 安装了Firebug的Firefox进行测试。

最后我有一句话要说“继续努力”。愿一切都好！