Ruby on Rails : Please provide suggestions to begin learning

[Ramesh Jothimani]

Hi,
I am new to Ruby on Rails. I have work experience only with Java/J2EE (Struts & Hibernate). I am more interested in learning RoR.Kindly suggest good materials/sites to learn.Which IDE can I prefer , as a beginner ?

Thanks in advance.

[Greg Charles]

Have you looked into the Bunkhouse? I enjoyed Ruby On Rails Tutorial, but there are other suggestions there as well.

For IDEs, Eclipse with a plugin is free. There's also RubyMine, which is based on IntelliJ. It's free to try out, but after a month you'll have to pay a license fee to keep using it.

[Ashley Lester]

Michael Hartl wrote a book on Ruby on Rails which you can read online for free. It's pretty good. Google it. There are also free sandboxed Ruby interpreters online which are also pretty good. Tryruby and railsforzombies are examples.
If you are running OS X then you will probably want to run Textmate now that it is free. If you're on Windows then it's probably Sublime Text, they also do a free version but it has ads reminding you to pay for it. I found Ruby development environment to be pretty slow on Windows and preferred dual-booting with a Linux environment, in which case, you can use Gedit. Or, you can use Vim on any of the OS's. Or Eclipse.

[Mubashar Shahzad]

Ramesh Jothimani wrote:Hi,
I am new to Ruby on Rails. I have work experience only with Java/J2EE (Struts & Hibernate). I am more interested in learning RoR.Kindly suggest good materials/sites to learn.Which IDE can I prefer , as a beginner ?

Thanks in advance.

here are some basics hope you find some good tips
Ruby on Rails Development - Features To Develop

[Guillermo Ishi]

Web Application Architectures using Ruby is starting up on Coursera. Looks pretty good.

[Jack mark]

Hi i am also new to RoR. From above comment i receive many good information about ruby on rails.

I found this website www.cryptextechnologies.com where very nice information is given on Ruby on rails for developers.

Thanks.