| Books(In this order, if you know no Ruby):
1. Agile Web Development w Rails 2nd ed. It's available as a pdf direct from the Pragmatic Programmers -. Skip the Pickaxe book for now, the 1st edition is online at http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ 2. Black's Ruby for Rails (Manning). Read this not long after AWDwR. It provides much insight into the Ruby behind the Rails. 3 (tie). Either Orsini's Rails Cookbook (O'Reilly) (the testing chapter is particularly useful if it's new to you) 3 (tie). Fowler's Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers). Both books are very good. If anything, 'Recipes' gets you movign faster, but you'll probably learn more from the Cookbook. opt. Ajax on Rails by Raymond (O'Reilly). An in Depth Reference to Prototype, Scriptaculus and rjs. Useful since there is no really good reference on these for the noob. opt. The Ruby Way by Fulton (Addison Wesley) An 'inside out' Ruby reference. Instead of going through classes and methods on by one, this book is organized by things one can do, with the classes and methods introduced in context. Not so much every day useful- but if you don't have access to a real liver rubyist, it's a good way to see how one might approach a problem. opt. The Pickaxe 2nd ed (dead tree format). Some folks just like to step away from the computer, and still think about computers. Other than books:
The google groups for rails:
rubyonrails-talk (general discussion. A great list btw good questions get answered very well usually. No attitude at all.) rubyonrails-core (the core contributors and rails internals) rubyonrails-spinoffs (mostly the ajaxy stuff) rubyonrails-security (created after an incident last year
to spread urgent messages about rails vunerabilities, announcements only) The api docs: either at api.rubyonrails.org (rails) or caboo.se (another rails doc project) www.ruby-doc.org/core (Ruby core) www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib (Ruby standard library) Hope this helps, J. |