No More Procrastinating: Instant Rails 2.0 Released
rubyforge.org
rubyforge.org
package management is pretty great for that stuff, and the support is vastly superior.
this is coming from a diehard windows user. i was midway through installing ruby/rails/mysql when i found out that instant rails 2.0 just came out. i submitted the link here, played with it for about 2 mins and went right back to linux haha.