To start getting used to the ruby language I recommend using http://tryruby.com http://tryruby.com. For rails there are quite a few tutorial sites. Here are a

To start getting used to the ruby language I recommend using http://tryruby.com http://tryruby.com. For rails there are quite a few tutorial sites. Here are a few good ones. http://railsforzombies.org/ http://railsforzombies.org/ http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book If you go through some of these they will talk you through creating a form and submitting the data to a database. Your application is suite similar to the typical blog application many tutorials take you through building. To secure the data stored in the database just think of the data as a password and store it encrypted using a salt. Good Luck.