[nascro]

Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial addresses this right away. The first chapter is called From Zero to Deploy, where he demonstrates how to set up a Ruby/Rails programming environment and deploy rails apps to Github and Heroku.

[jboggan]

I cannot recommend this enough. Even this lowly darkside Perl hacker was able to make sense of it and use Hartl's example to construct a useful app.

[jswanson]

Link for Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

Available for free online, though you can also pay for it if you'd like.