Learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails

We were having a great discussion about Ruby and Ruby on Rails and Mike Moore of the Boise Ruby Brigade suggested some great resources for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails:

The main Ruby web site was updated recently. I believe there is some good info there, like this 20 minute introduction. The Ruby on Rails web site has alot of good information on it. You might want to start out with some of the screencasts. You will get a good sense of what Rails does and how you can use it there. You can also get to the APIs, online tutorials, and some of the many books written about Rails (and Ruby) at RubyOnRails.com. I prefer to do all my heavy learning with dead tree books, and the Pragmatic Bookshelf has the best offering of Ruby books so far, although other publishers are starting to catch up. The seminal Ruby book is the "pickaxe" book by Dave Thomas, named for its cover. My favorite Rails book is also by Dave Thomas. There is also a new beta version. ~Mike

I looked at Ruby a long time back, but there wasn't much documentation then. Looks like that is no longer the case. I guess it is time to look into Ruby again. Thanks for the resources Mike!

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