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Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial is a good start (look closely, there is free access online):

http://railstutorial.org/

It's not perfect, but it does walk you through the process of setting up a proper environment, using git for version control, and pushing to Heroku for rapid deployment. He even explains different basics and features of the Ruby language, so you can start here without learning Ruby if you so desire. Definitely complete the additional tasks at the end of each chapter as they are very helpful.

Also, I found it helpful to browse through the many open-source Rails projects you can find online, particularly on github.