What did you do to get good at Rails?
In order...
- Got good at Ruby (read the pickaxe cover-to-cover).
- Read a Rails tutorial (AWDwR).
- Found a cooperative commercial client to write an actual application for (and billed him at reduced rates because I was learning).
- Found every forum I could online to find people asking questions, then researched (mainly in the Rails source) and answered questions I was pretty sure of. Waited for others to answer questions I wasn't sure of and checked my answers against theirs.
Who taught you what you know?