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honestly, I was pointing to the webcast more than the framework, webcasts are a great educational tools for new comers.

MSDN contain mountains of webcast on everything, the educational value is huge. I wish more webcast existed for Java, Groovy, Javascript, Perl, Grails, Catalyst, Spring framework!

The soup to nuts series covers everything, similarly other webcast series, the idea is simple and very effective, you will spend your first 10 or so hours looking as vidoes and presentations, next you can move to books and online forums and blogs

After he finishes these webcast, moving to RoR will be a much simpler road, even when RoR is a different framework