For me, the first step was to want to build something. That gave me the drive to want to find out how. AWDR & Pickaxe are pretty indispensable (although I pick

For me, the first step was to want to build something. That gave me the drive to want to find out how. AWDR & Pickaxe are pretty indispensable (although I picked up Pickaxe much later). There are also loads of really great blogs (jamis buck, err the blog ..) and forums (railsweenie, ruby-forum ..) out there worth checking out regularly.