If you're already familiar with programming and MVC, I'd recommend rails for zombies (http://railsforzombies.org http://railsforzombies.org) it gives you a good

If you're already familiar with programming and MVC, I'd recommend rails for zombies (http://railsforzombies.org http://railsforzombies.org) it gives you a good overview of both Ruby and Rails. I came from a PHP / CodeIgniter background, I spent a couple of hours with Rails for zombies, and then just started playing around with rails, using http://guides.rubyonrails.org http://guides.rubyonrails.org and http://railscasts.com http://railscasts.com when ever I could't figure something out. And of course, stackoverflow is a great resource.