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You can try ruby with one of the great online interactive tutorials of all time here: http://tryruby.hobix.com/ http://tryruby.hobix.com/ And from there you can start playing with Rails, which is a joy to use. I recommend starting with "Agile Web Development with Rails". I've only read excerpts from "The Rails Way" but it seems good, too. Bottom line for me -- programming Ruby and building Rails apps is fun.