神奇的决定!在学习Rails之前，先了解Ruby是非常有用的，所以下面是我对学习Rails的最佳途径的看法:

Learn to Program by Chris Pine - You can read this in an afternoon to get a feel for the Ruby language. The Well Grounded Rubyist by David Black - Like the title says it will give you an excellent grounding in the language. Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen - This book is sublime, it reads like a novel. Ruby Best Practices by Gregory Brown - By this point you should be ready for the advanced level of this book. Rails for Zombies - Fun tutorial you can complete in an afternoon. Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl - Fantastic (and free) tutorial and I have heard his accompanying screencasts are amazing. Agile Web Development with Rails by Sam Ruby - By the time you are finished this you are now a completely capable Rails person!

除了书本之外，最重要的是获得对你所做事情的反馈。要做到这一点，我建议花时间在irc.freenode.net #ruby和#rubyonrails。在stackoverflow上发布你正在做的事情或遇到的麻烦也是非常有用的，因为人们提供的评论、解释和不同的思考方式是非常宝贵的。

你也一定要看看Ruby Rogues播客，他们提供了宝贵的信息，评论员都是Ruby社区里非常受人尊敬的人。为了让你的观看和阅读乐趣(按此顺序)，请前往瑞恩·贝茨的《Railscasts》和艾菲恩·贝德福德的《Asciicasts》。

最后，我建议在github上寻找不同的宝石，阅读代码，然后为它们做出贡献。你不必过于雄心勃勃，做大量的重新编码，尤其是在刚开始的时候。只要从一些小事情开始，比如编辑和使README文件更容易阅读。

我不使用IDE，但在Railsconf上我看到了Jetbrains的Rubymine演示，它看起来非常棒。

和你一样，我是一名java/ c#开发人员，试图学习更多的Ruby On Rails。

我正在学习免费的在线课程《Ruby on Rails Programming with Passion》，这是一门很好的入门课程，可以去看看。

我们使用NetBeans作为IDE (win/mac/linux/solaris)，如果你习惯Eclipse或Visual Studio，你很有可能会喜欢它。

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。

您可以尝试的另一个IDE是Aptana。

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

只有+1敏捷Web开发与Rails(尽管确保您获得最新版本)- http://pragprog.com/

我在Mac上开发，这有时是有益的——它是Rails开发人员非常流行的平台，所以你看到的许多博客文章都是面向Mac的。不过Linux也很棒;)

最后——我和公司一点关系都没有——当你有东西想要直播时，heroku是一个不错的选择。找到一个便宜的rails主机并不容易，所以这是一个很好的起点。不过，还有很多其他优秀的主持人!Heroku确实需要git来进行版本控制(尽管您可以在subversion之上使用它)。

祝你好运!