Working With Rails

lynda.com has a great (video) tutorial Ruby On Rails Essential Training and Beyond the Basics alsoon the rubyonrails website they point you to great tutorials and books http://rubyonrails.org/docs here you’ll find some good ones too http://pragprog.com, I hope I could help

If you like to learn by seeing other people, you should also try Ryan Bates’ fantastic site: Railscasts

I’ll second Madmelulio’s vote for Railscasts. Also Ryan is a Moderator on the Rails Forum , which is full of useful tips and advice. Right back in the beginning, I found Curt Hibbs ‘Rolling with Ruby on Rails’ a great way to get going – it’s now been updated to Revisited . Dave Thomas’s ‘Agile Web Development with Rails’ is my background reference book, and you’ll find it useful working through the example material in the first 200 pages. But I’ve also notice that Patrick Lenz’s Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications has just been made available as a free download from SitePoint. I’ve dipped into this in the past, and it looks like a great way to pick up the basics. Have fun with Rails.

If you found a certain book or an ebook, just scan or browse through its pages. In that way you can “feel” your way if the resource is appropriate for you. If you can understand some if not all of the first few pages then you’ll know that that resource is worth your time. I guess for me there’s no shortcut to learning any kind of programming language but the key there is keep reading more. I know you can easily learn RoR because it is really easy to learn than the other languages.

Railscasts is also a great site for learning many great tricks in using Ruby on Rails.

If you’re new to Rails, check out the Learning Rails podcast series, which I and my partner Christopher Haupt produce.

If you have the budget and want to get up to speed quickly, there’s nothing like an in-person seminar. Mike Clark and Dave Thomas at Pragmatic Studio do a great job, though their seminars assume a programming background. I’m teaching a seminar in San Francisco (first one is February 20-21, 2008) that is designed to make Rails accessible to people without much programming background; see the Ruby on Rails Seminar site for details.

After working through a few online tutorials I actually found the “Rails Cookbook” from O’Reilly to be one of the most useful books I used starting out. I still refer to it regularly.

• ruby documentation can be found at railsbrain.com
  and ebooks are at http://www.itstudy8.org/ruby.asp

Screencasts: Peepcode, Railscasts
Books: Agile Web Development with Rails, The Rails Way, The Ruby Way
Blogs: has_many :through, RailsJitsu, Err the blog and many more.

Checkout this

Slideshow :
http://www.slideshare.net/peter_marklund/ruby-on-rails-101-presentation-slides-for-a-five-day-introductory-course/

PDF format : http://marklunds.com/rails_101.pdf

Really worth reading.

I just ordered The Rails Way and The Ruby Way and I can hardly wait to get my hands on them.I really want ot learn much more about Ruby. I wish I worked on a team so I could share knowledge first hand with other Ruby/Rails developers.

I agree that there are some great tutorials on Railscasts. I also like http://www.railsenvy.com.

Raul, i would suggest this one

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510329/index.html

If you are interested in Performance tunning , load balancing etc..

Just sharing some of the places I’ve used:

my learning resources round-up

basically, books, railscast, peepcode, blogs, and api doc

this is really helpful guys, thanks.
also found this on youtube, there’s a whole series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4UhY3gdC0

The best way to get started is to get the bible: “Agile webn development with rails”. It will walk you through everything that you need to know to begin.

The other tutorials and books mentioned are also great, but tend to be more specific to aspects of rails. The above is the best overview available.

Hello,

This is a free resource that can help you learn RoR and become more efficient when working: http://www.yoyobrain.com/cardboxes/preview/863 plus the site was built on Ruby on Rails :) I hope you find it useful- Also, I’m looking to find ways to get this into the hands of more developers, feedback much appreciated. Feel free to email me- elizabeth@yoyobrain.com

Best,

Elizabeth