Resources to get you started Though the usual suspects like Codecademy and Learn Ruby the Hard Way are good resources to learn Ruby, there are a bunch of other resources.

How hard is it to get started with Ruby on Rails? Ruby on Rails is a Web application framework written in the Ruby programming language.

The default database for Rails 2.0.x application is SQLite3 . This database is bundled with Mac OSX Leopard and so makes it really easy to get started with Ruby-on-Rails.