I am a "business guy" who was proficient in PHP. Here's what I did: - Bought a beginning Ruby book and gave it a quick perusal to get a handle on the fundamen

I am a "business guy" who was proficient in PHP. Here's what I did: - Bought a beginning Ruby book and gave it a quick perusal to get a handle on the fundamentals - Went through Michael Hartl's amazing Rails Tutorial (I skipped over some of the detailed sections on testing with the intention of returning at a later point.) - Finally, and most importantly, I converted an old PHP app into Rails. This helped me to see how what I wrote previously would fit into the Rails way of doing things.