Rails first put out a video of a Mac OS X desktop setting up a simple blogging application right in front of your eyes. This has turned into the Rails Academy, and more videos are being added.
For example, there are now new lessons in which you see a full install from scratch on Windows.
It would be funny to do a parady in which someone starts from scratch, sets up a JVM, an application server, an IDE, downloads a bunch of open source tools, etc ;)