IDE: NetBeans
Book: Agile Web Development With Rails
Installation: Instant Rails

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。

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》

IDE: NetBeans
Book: Agile Web Development With Rails
Installation: Instant Rails

我以前在windows上用Java和c#编程。

我赞同这些来源:

IDE:尝试Apatana RadRails 3预览:http://www.radrails.org/3。它是最接近Visual Studio的东西。我偶尔会使用它，但仍然喜欢Textmate的轻盈感。

OS: Mac OS从Ruby社区得到了最多的爱。其他的都被当作私生子对待。

书:

实用程序员指南(十字镐书) 使用Rails进行敏捷Web开发

视频:

Peepcode (pay)是一种快速掌握概念的好方法 Railscasts(免费)是一个很好的方法，每周获取新的宝石和概念增量 Railscasts(专业版)也是一种以相当低的价格获取概念的好方法。

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。