我发现Obie Fernandez写的《The Rails Way》非常棒，当使用Rails进行敏捷Web开发还不够深入的时候，我经常会参考它。Obie Fernandez也有一个不错的博客。

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。

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

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。

毫无疑问

使用Rails进行敏捷Web开发

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推荐手册

为了好玩

高级Rails食谱

我想链接到另外两个，但Stack Overflow不允许。查看同一网站。

我现在正在学习Rails，如果你正在使用Windows(假设使用c#开发)，如果投资Mac不是一个选择，我强烈建议你学习Linux。

如果你不想在你的硬盘上为Ubuntu创建一个单独的分区，我建议你看看Wubi，一个Ubuntu的Windows安装程序。Rails在Ubuntu上的体验远没有在Windows上那么令人头疼，我认为它类似于OSX开发环境，只是没有那么多的应用程序支持。我目前正在使用一个alpha文本编辑器Redcar，它允许你有一些textmate的功能，流行的OSX编辑器。

我读过的关于Rails的好书是Cloves Carneiro Jr和Rida Al Barazi写的《Beginning Rails 3》。还有Noel Rappin的《Rails测试处方》，关于用测试驱动的方法进行开发。

我最喜欢的是Ryan Bates的Railscasts，它让我从业余爱好者变成了行家。他通常在每周一左右发布一个关于Rails精华的视频，或者最近的Sass、SCSS、Coffeescript以及与Rails 3.1相关的技术。

我觉得对于任何初学者来说，必读的是why's(尖锐的)ruby指南。不幸的是，当我开始接触Ruby时，_why消失了，但他的内容仍然分散在各种来源。它有奇特的幽默，到最后你会很好地了解Ruby的语法。