A Little R 'n' R: Ruby and Rails Resources

I recently gathered some pointers to info on Ruby and Ruby On Rails for my manager, who is showing interest in RoR despite the fact that Java/JEE is The Standard in my company (yeay!). Here's what I sent to him.

Books

• There are many on Ruby and Rails, and more all the time, but here's what I've got.
• Ruby
• Programming Ruby, 2nd Ed. - Dave Thomas
• (1st edition available online at Ruby Central and in CHM format with Ruby download.)
• Enterprise Integration with Ruby - Maik Schmidt
• Rails
• Agile Web Development with Rails - Dave Thomas & DHH
• (There is now a 2nd edition, but I only have the first.)
• Rails Recipes - Chad Fowler
• Both
• Ruby for Rails - David Black

Online

• Why the Lucky Stiff's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
• [Loopy! Great!]
• http://www.rubycentral.com/
• http://rubyonrails.com/
• Check out the 15 minute demo!
• http://ruby-lang.org/en/
• http://rubyforge.org/
• http://rubygarden.org/
• http://www.ruby-doc.org/
• Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Tools

• RadRails
• There are several editors, but this one is built on eclipse and incorporates the RDT (Ruby Development Toolkit).
• http://www.radrails.org/
• JRuby
• http://jruby.sourceforge.net/

Training

• There are more all the time, but this one is probably the premier one.
• http://www.pragmaticstudio.com/
• Notice the next one is in Columbus in August!

Conferences

• http://canadaonrails.com/
• The right-most guy pictured (Joe O'Brien) is the head of the Columbus Ruby Brigade...
• http://www.railsconf.org/