ruby-sydney

Are there ruby or rails user groups/meetups around you? If not, there's a bunch of mentor groups, or reddit seems pretty supportive. Stackoverflow is pretty good but there aren't enought people answering questions for the volume they're getting http://www.railsmentors.org/ https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/Available-mentors http://www.reddit.com/r/rails/ http://installfest.railsbridge.org/installfest/ (Railsbridge is a fantastic organization, if you emailed i bet they would help I've been going thru same thing, my MBP hard drive died, so i installed RVM, bundler, and rails 3.2 on a couple ubuntu 12.04 laptops while i'm waiting for my Snow leopard install DVD. The key insight is to write down every step if you have to back out. And read 2 or 3 blogs and see what they agree on before starting install. These are good for 12.04

My local Ruby on Rails organisation, in Australia, has a list of mentors available for different topics. I've both given sessions and attended them and they are always educational. https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/Available-mentors