Ask HN: How Can I Learn Ruby on Rails?

Start with: http://tryruby.org/

Then try: http://railsforzombies.org/

Other people have asked the same thing and received helpful answers: http://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/dchql/what_is_a_great...

http://ask.metafilter.com/165590/Rapid-Ruby-on-Rails-indoctr...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-ra...

Free programming books here, there are some RoR examples: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...

Rails tips: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/10/14/stop-googling/ (I liked this article but the whole site might have good resources.)

There is a community specifically for mentoring: http://www.railsmentors.org/

And here's a general Rails community link: http://www.workingwithrails.com/

Not my favorite site but here's a good article on freelancing: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/26/successful-freela...

Rails Rumble, get some app ideas from here once you build your skills: http://railsrumble.com/

Of course, Google "_why". Read about "why the lucky stiff". Read lots about him and see where it leads you.

Also - a friend taught a StuCo (student-taught course) at CMU about programming, which included Rails. He still has the slides and assignments up, those might be useful too: http://www.cmurpg.com/