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Be aware there is a lot of information on Ruby and Ruby on Rails (RoR) in form of articles, tutorials, books, blogs, screencasts, etc.

Ideal approach might be to not over prepare, just dip in and see if it is worth exploring further.

1. Start with a little bit of Ruby

Rails is implemented in and uses the programming language Ruby. Use the articles below to an idea about Ruby and write some code.

• Try Ruby in your browser

Comes with eight guided chapters, should take 1-2 hours to finish to enough. One has to write the code to proceed to next steps in each chapter

Tips:

-Type in exactly as prompted to move to next step and use the up arrow to save some typing

-Use help 2 to start at end of chapter 2.

-Typing ‘reset’ exits from the extended prompt (..), ‘back’ takes to previous page of the tutorial and
‘end’ closes the current file or block.

• Steve Yegge’s: A Quick Tour of Ruby

He covers language features, compares to Java and gets you considering Ruby as a scripting language replacement for Perl, etc.

If you do need all the links I found to be able to decide which articles to read first, email me a note or add a comment and I will put them together.