Setting up a Ruby On Rails dev environment from scratch on windows
Want to start with Ruby and Rails and have no idea where to even begin?
Check out RailsInstaller.org - it contains pretty much everything you need to get started, in a way that is very easy and painless.
RailsInstaller 1.1.1 Demo from Engine Yard on Vimeo.
The video on that site will tell you everything you need to know to get started on your "hello world" website, including using git, pushing to github and generating rails related views.