title: Ruby On Rails Web Application Development From Scratch?
body: <h3>Background</h3>
  <p>I am interested in getting to grips with some Ruby On Rails. I've got 4 years experience programming in C#, ASP.Net, ASP.Net MVC, SQL Server and more recently Silverlight etc. Obviously I've got a pretty good understanding about the various implementation routes that you can go down when writing web applications using C#, the issue is that I have literally no clue about Ruby On Rails, other than that Ruby is an awesome pure object oriented language and that Rails is a very quick way in which to build web applications using Ruby.</p>
  <h3>What I'm After</h3>
  <p>So essentially I'm after a session that fills in the blanks, and helps me to understand the various ways of building web applications using ROR. On top of this, i've found a few tutorials but they seem to be quite vague, so any documentation/samples would be very handy to help get me started.</p>
  <h3>More Detail</h3>
  <p>Popular IDE'S to use for development (I've heard RubyMine is good from JetBrains).
  Possible database implementations to use (I know MySQL is an option but which version?)
  Is HTML/CSS used to style the web apps?!
  Interface plugins if used?
  General route to producing a highly Web 2.0 site that encompasses a fantastic user experience and a beautiful interactive interface.</p>
  <p>...You get the idea, I just need a bit of guidance getting clued up.</p>
  <p>Help greatly appreciated :-D</p>