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I haven't reached the top of the mountain, but here is how I got started. First I did learn Ruby the Hard Way - just went as far as I could. When I got stuck, I went back to the beginning and started again.

About that time I found Codecademy and did their lesson. Next I started building a Rails app reading the Oreilly book. That was supplanted by Rails For Zombies as soon as I found that. I followed the RFZ tutorials 1 and 2.

Somewhere around this time I saw a presentation at General Assembly by a guy named Mattan Griffel. He did an hour class on getting started. A few months later he launched a site called One Month Rails - it laid out a tutorial to build a Tumblr-type site I believe.

It was most helpful for me to always find a new tutorial, and get as far as I could with it. When you're just learning the basics, repetition and focusing on new projects kept me interested. There are a wealth of tutorials on the internet that teach in different voices, different orders and build different projects. For me, the best way to go was to try as many as I could.