Raaum's Rails Reader

[Note: Ryan Raaum is the original author of this Rails Reader. Circumstances have prevented him from being able to keep the information on these pages up-to-date. Rather than let the pages die, Ed Ruder is republishing them and will try to keep the info fresh. The contents of this site consist of a mix of Ryan's original pages and organization and Ed's updates and modifications.]

I hope you find this site to be a useful reference, it is a both a manual for Ruby on Rails and your guide to the other available RoR documentation. It is meant to complement the official API documentation and help you quickly find the answers you need. I've organized the presentation of the framework in a way that I hope is easy for you to navigate.

Overviews of Ruby on Rails

• The Official Ruby on Rails Site
• The Wikipedia Entry on Ruby on Rails

Ruby Links

• Ruby Language Home
• RubyIdioms
• Ruby Style Guide

Rails Forums and Mailing Lists

• Rails Forum
  
• The official mailing list for the Ruby on Rails project (high traffic)
• The official mailing list for core Rails developers (if you want to follow the bleeding edge)

References

• Programming Ruby, 1st Edition
• Ruby Core API Docs
• Ruby Standard Library API Docs
• Ruby Internals
  
• API "servers"
  
• gotapi.com. API aggregator--every API you can think of!
• noobkit.com. Ruby & Rails documentation.
• railsbrain.com. Nice downloadable Ajax Ruby & Rails documentation.
• BuildingWebApps. Web application developers' information portal
• Working With Rails. Find Rails experts, ask questions, etc.
  

Rails Blog Roll

(in alphabetical order)

• blog by Ben Curtis
• the { buckblogs :here } by Jamis Buck
• BuildingWebApps
• ~:caboose by the Caboose Collective (mostly courtenay recently)
• Codefluency by Bruce Williams
  
• elliot's blog by Elliot Smith
• err.the_blog by PJ Hyett and Chris Wanstrath
• has_many :through by Josh Susser
• nuby on rails by Geoffrey Grosenbach (topfunky)
• PluginAWeek by Aaron Pfeifer & Neil Abraham
• Rails Tips by John Nunemaker
• The Rails Way by Jamis Buck & Michael Koziarski
  
• Riding Rails by David Heinemeier Hansson
• Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper
• Ruby on Rails Development by R Baldwin
• Ruby, Rails, Web 2.0 by Peter Szinek
  
• (24)slash7 by Amy Hoy (eriberri)
• snax: a ruby blog by Evan Weaver
• Softies on Rails by Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen
• techno weenie by Rick Olson (technoweenie)
  

Books and PDFs

• Ruby for Rails by David Black
• Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Ed by Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz
• Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce by Christian Hellsten & Jarkko Laine
• Mongrel: Serving, Deploying, and Extending your Ruby Applications by Matt Pelletier & Zed Shaw
• Rubyisms in Rails by Jacob Harris
• Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book by Jeremy McAnally (pdf is FREE!)

 FAQ

Perhaps it will survive...

• Rails FAQ by Faisal

Screencasts

• Screencasts on the Official Ruby on Rails site
• Railscasts. Simply the best free Rails lessons!
• presentations by the san diego ruby users group
• Mocha and Stubba (Mocks and Stubs in your tests) (Nov 06, 2006)
• Deployment (Nov 06, 2006)
• ActsAsTaggable Plugin (Nov 06, 2006)
• REST Web Services with Rails (Oct 03, 2006)
• REST with Rails (Oct 03, 2006)
• Rails Authentication (Sept 08, 2006)
• Dynamic Domains (Sept 08, 2006)
• ARTS Plugin (Testing RJS) (Sept 08, 2006)
• The Peepcode Screencasts (not free but highly recommended!)
• Test-First Development
• Restful Rails
• TextMate Basics for Rails
• RJS Templates
• Capistrano Concepts

 Rails Hosts

• Compare rails hosts at the Rails Hosting Info site