A Few Good Cookbooks
I’ve played around a bit with Ruby and Rails over the past couple of years, but I haven’t done any significant programming in either. After attending CodeMash and sitting in on a few great sessions around both Ruby and Rails, I decided to start using Ruby as my primary scripting language and I made a commitment to play around some more with Rails.
The best resource that I’ve had had in both of these situations are each respective cookbook from O’Reilly. I’ve always known enough to hack around, but it’s been wonderful just skimming the books and getting a grasp on the capabilities and common tasks for each one.
I’ve found out a lot about how to effectively use Ruby and I’ve found many capabilities that I didn’t think that were possible (at least easily) with Rails.
These books are both great resources, superbly written, and deserve a place on your bookshelf.