[codeslush]

If you're going down the rails path, start with this free and great intro tutorial/book: http://railstutorial.org/chapters/

[RyanHolliday]

Thanks! This looks great, really comprehensive.

[codeslush]

It should be noted that it not only gets you going with Rails, but also instills some great practices from the beginning - like test driven development. Get started and you'll have your own little twitter deployed in just a couple of days! ;-)