Basically, this is a quick start guide for people who have some experience with Rails and Git already and just want to get to the meat of Michael Hartl's classic book, [the Rails Tutorial][railstutorial]. It boils everything down to what you'll need to start creating the sample app at Chapter 3, without any of the demo apps in the beginning, assuming you know version control with git and what you need to do to install rails.
I'm assuming you already have a text editor or IDE.
- Rails Installer (Windows)
- Install Git