After a couple of false starts, I just installed the next to latest version of InstantRails and worked through the O'Reilly tutorial by Bill Walton. Ruby Rocks! I'm sold. I just have one teensy little problem, though. Firefox can't seem to being up my Gmail account anymore. Has this happened to anyone else? Any ideas, please?
It was an issue with the ports. I switched from port 3000 to port 3001 for the RoR application, and now Gmail is happy. Funny thing is it only affected Gmail. Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Groups were fine. I didn't test any other Google apps.