Rails - Jul 2008 - A quick ground up kit for Ruby on Rails

Guys, I am relatively very new to Ruby almost a veteran as an
automation engineer. Lately we have been using some open source tools
which my current employer mandated to use and we started.

Now in the middle of the project, we have hit various technical issues
which no one is aware of. Going deep into the tool revealed that it
was a subset of Ruby on Rails. Is there any short/crisp to the point
dummies series etc which I could go through for a quicker turn around
time.

I''ve burnt my hands in almost all the scripting languages except Ruby,
and any help on this will be highly highly appreciated.

Abhinav Vaid

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Well, the ''standard'' rails book is "Agile Web Development
With Ruby on
Rails" by David Thomas et al, which i believe has the third edition out 
recently/soon.

If you''ve never used Ruby then a good book is "Ruby For
Rails" by David
A Black, a frequent contributor to this forum site.  Some ruby knowledge 
is invaluable as Rails has a lot of ''magic'' (which as we all
know has
its upsides and downsides) even if you DO know ruby well.

I wouldn''t bother with any ''Dummies'' or similar
books.

When you learn Rails, i''d STRONGLY recommend reading through sections
of
the API rather than (or rather, as well as) just following tutorials. 
Reading the docs for, say, ActiveRecord::Base after you''ve done a
little
bit of rails stuff will make everything a lot clearer, especially if 
you''re trying to understand someone else''s code.  I usually
use
www.railsbrain.com to answer my API questions.
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