34 Ruby and Rails Tutorials and Resources

Get to grips with Ruby and Ruby on Rails with 34 of the very best tutorials, resources and articles gathered from the net.

• Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials - A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read a lot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful.
• Installing Ruby on Rails – This how-to is aimed at getting you started with Ruby on Rails installed on the Fedora Core 4 Linux distribution using the Lighttpd web server and mySQL database server.
• Try Ruby in your Browser – Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now.

• Learning Ruby – Covers the fundamentals of writing a program. It is required knowledge for anyone aspiring to program in Ruby.
• Learning Ruby: A Guide to Online Tutorials, Examples and Downloads – This article will present the best Ruby tutorials, examples and downloads I’ve found over the course of the last year.
• Ruby Learning – rubylearning.com is a thorough collection of Ruby study notes for those who are new to the language.

• Ruby Cheat Sheet (pdf) – Cheat sheet for Ruby1.8.4
• Ruby FAQ – Questions and answers on Ruby.
• Ruby Tutorials – Tutorialized section on Ruby.
• Ruby Central – A growing web resource for everything to do with the Ruby language.
• Top 30 – Ruby on Rails Tutorials.
• Code Beach -More Ruby tutorials.
• Why’s (poignant) guide to Ruby – This is just a small Ruby book. It won’t crush you. It’s light as a feather (because I haven’t finished it yet—hehe). And there’s a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn.
• Programming Ruby – The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide
• Ruby on Rails – Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.

• Ruby on Rails Wiki – Introduction and tutorials.
• Ruby on Rails for web development – Apple developer connection.
• Get On Track with Ruby on Rails – Ruby? Rails? Ajax? Is this cluster of confusing buzzwords swarming around your head like a mob of angry bees? Then fear not, gentle padawan — Jedi help is at hand!
• Typo – Rails blog software.

• Typo 2.5 Theme Tutorial – The new Rails-based typo blog engine is out – Packed with many new features, it’s no longer a lightweight blogging engine.
• Ruby on Rails – This is Geoffrey Grosenbach’s blog, covering Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Ruby on Rails Tutorials – We have made some of the tutorials for Ruby on Rails freely available to help you evaluate our training.
• Ruby Quick Ref – Quick refference guide for Ruby.
• Getting Started With Ruby – What Ruby lacks more than anything is good starting points for getting into the language. There’s a bunch of absolutely excellent resources out there, though. I’ve attempted to summarize the best of them by category.
• The Ruby Quiz – Ruby Quiz is a weekly programming challenge for Ruby programmers in the spirit of the Perl Quiz of the Week.
• Rolling with Ruby on Rails – Maybe you’ve heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you’d like to give it a try.
• Ruby on Rails : An extensive roundup of resources, projects, books, links, hosts and more.
• Ruby Inside – Ruby Inside is a weblog dedicated to Ruby and its associated technologies, including Ruby on Rails.

• Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet – The Ruby On Rails cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a developers desk.

• Ruby Code and Style – Sharing the pleasure of programming in Ruby.
• 19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don’t Know – When looking at my own Rails code and that of the community as a whole, I often see places where certain Rails techniques could have been used, but weren’t. As much for my own memory as yours, I thought I’d list down some Rails tricks and tips that can make your application or code more efficient.
• The Complete Guide to Rails Plugins – Plugins are self-contained libraries made specially for Rails. They are a great way to reuse someone else’s code or to package your own code for reuse.
• Ruby Development Center – Yahoo! Developer Network – Ruby Developer Center.
• HappyCodr – Ruby on Rails Showcase