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
Ruby Links
- Ruby Language Home
- Ruby Core API Docs
- Ruby Standard Library API Docs
- RubyIdioms
- Ruby Style Guide
- Programming Ruby, 1st Edition
Rails Forums and Mailing Lists
- Rails Weenie (bad name, great 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)
Rails Blog Roll
(in no particular order)
- Riding Rails by David Heinemeier Hansson
- nuby on rails by Geoffrey Grosenbach (topfunky)
- has_many :through by Josh Susser
- ~:caboose by the Caboose Collective (mostly courtenay recently)
- (24)slash7 by Amy Hoy (eriberri)
- techno weenie by Rick Olson (technoweenie)
- The Rails Way by Jamis Buck & Michael Koziarski
- Codefluency by Bruce Williams
- blog by Ben Curtis
- PluginAWeek by Aaron Pfeifer & Neil Abraham
- Rails Tips by John Nunemaker
- the { buckblogs :here } by Jamis Buck
- elliot's blog by Elliot Smith
- snax: a ruby blog by Evan Weaver
- Softies on Rails by Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen
- err.the_blog by PJ Hyett and Chris Wanstrath
- Ruby on Rails Development by R Baldwin
- Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper
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...
Screencasts
- Screencasts on the Official Ruby on Rails site
- 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!)
Rails Hosts
- Compare rails hosts at the Rails Hosting Info site