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Re:New to Ruby? Tips for the new Rubyist. by nascro on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @10:57AM (#4068874)
Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial addresses this right away. The first chapter is called From Zero to Deploy, where he demonstrates how to set up a Ruby/Rails programming environment and deploy rails apps to Github and Heroku.
Re:New to Ruby? Tips for the new Rubyist. by jboggan on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @11:24AM (#4069001)
I cannot recommend this enough. Even this lowly darkside Perl hacker was able to make sense of it and use Hartl's example to construct a useful app.
Re:New to Ruby? Tips for the new Rubyist. by jswanson on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @02:47AM (#4072703)
Link for Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

Available for free online, though you can also pay for it if you'd like.