Starting off with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Question

I am interested in building web applications using Ruby on Rails. I surfed the Internet and found out that I need to have a prior knowledge of the Ruby language. So can you please suggest some good books, online resources to start off with Ruby first and then Ruby on Rails?

Thanks, Rakesh.

There must be around thousand questions and answers on SO regarding this very query. Search for them please. — Swanand, Oct 05 '10 at 05:23
2 years old, but still relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-rails — Sasha Chedygov, Oct 05 '10 at 05:59

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '10 at 05:32

As far as Ruby goes, two good books are:

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt
The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming by Hal Fulton

Check out this link also for some helpful sites: http://ruby.about.com/od/tutorialsontheweb/tp/10waysfree.htm

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 05 '10 at 09:59

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You may also find RailsCast is useful too. :)

answered Oct 05 '10 at 09:59

Victor Lam

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 19 '20 at 01:18

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There is also Why's famous guide: http://poignant.guide/book/

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answered Oct 05 '10 at 14:13

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 15 '11 at 08:36

i also find above mentioned site Ruby on Rails tutorial quite helpful.. After this i suggest you can refer some of mentioned books to gain more experience in this language and framework.

* The Ruby Programming Language
* Rails 3 Way,
* Advanced Rails Recipes

Starting off with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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