Hey Tom, It might be easier to start with a framework like Ruby on Rails. The videos are great - they demo how to get started http://www.rubyonrails.org/ I've also found "Agile Web Development with Rails" http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html to be useful and their Ruby book [http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html] has been recommended to me too (haven't checked that out yet) FWIW, it seems to me that a majority of Rails developers are developing on macs, so there's a lot of documentation for getting it up and running on a mac. However, it only took us an afternoon to do a clean install of Ubuntu (Hoary) and get Rails running with all the packages we needed (mostly rmagick for images + lamp). I've been told the windows environment isn't much different, but ymmv. hth - Chris www.semioticpixels.com