I followed http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html with moderate success. I'm a PHP programmer by

I followed http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html with moderate success. I'm a PHP programmer by trade, and that guide was easy enough for me to understand. As far as 2.3 vs 3.0, I don't know enough about RoR to weigh in.