Starting off with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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, onlin开发者_JS百科e resources to start off with Ruby first and then Ruby on Rails?

Thanks, Rakesh.

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As far as Ruby goes, two good books are:

1. Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt

2. 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

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You may also find RailsCast is useful too. :)

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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

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