This makes me wish I wasn't already a Rails dev so I could have the pleasure of learning from scratch with this series. Anything Gregg Pollack screencasts is worth absorbing.<p>His initial <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/envyads#p/u" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/user/envyads#p/u</a> (with Jason Seifer) practically invented rails evangelism. Then his many videos on Scaling Rails (<a href="http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails" rel="nofollow">http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails</a>), Rails 3 (<a href="http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts/rails3" rel="nofollow">http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts/rails3</a>), and other topics (<a href="http://envycasts.com/" rel="nofollow">http://envycasts.com/</a>) are awesome, informative and entertaining. And no, I'm not paid to say this :).