Like many web developers I am largely self taught. The web is full of endless resources and anyone with an internet connection and Google can more or less figure anything out.

Having said that, it often times does help to have a course provide structure as a guideline to your learning. I found a course that is online and free to anyone that wants to learn the basics of Ruby.

You can find it here: http://www.rubylearning.org/class/

You can also check out the notes here: http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/tutorial.html

I haven't taken a computer science course in over a decade so this course helped get me back to the fundamentals of programming and specifically how they relate to the world of Ruby.

The individual that puts the course together has an active twitter account and is easily accessible on the course message boards and via email.

I've been going through the many resources I've used over the past several months to get up to speed on RoR and will start posting more of them here on this blog going forward.