I am a newbie to Ruby on Rails, and I am really interested in learning it in depth. I have dabbled in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript at w3schools and similar sites, and I am wondering what really got you guys started programming rails applications from scratch. What is the best way to learn the rails quickly? Thanks
Work right through a good tutorial such as railstutorial.org, which is free to use online. Don't use Windows, use Linux (eg Ubuntu) or Mac. Install ruby and rails using rvm (or possibly rbenv, I don't have experience of that). Also read through the Rails Guides.
Colin