There are some really helpful people in the Rails community, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who helps bunny and green coders more than Ryan Bates. Ryan's own site Railscasts.com is easily my favourite screencast - I like it better than my own!

In the previous screencast David Heinemeier Hansson impressed upon me the importance of deciding what it is I want to build. It's difficult to learn programming in the abstract. By building something I need and care about I can learn piecemeal, asking just the questions I need to solve the next step.

This screencast is very old and does not reflect the latest version of Ruby on Rails.

This screencast is a pair programming session between David Heinemeier Hansson and myself (Miles K. Forrest). I'm new to web application programming and a "bunny hill" rails developer at best, so to have a world-class developer take the time to go over some basics on how to get started was very encouraging and valuable to me. If you're also new to Rails perhaps this 35 minute screencast might help point you in the right direction.