Blaine Kendall has created a nice Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet that will help the beginner RoR developer. Although the cheatsheet spans 12 pages it may not be a handy desk reference, but the information is well structured and very complete.
One of the really cool features of the Prototype JavaScript library is that it makes JavaScript feel a little Ruby-like. Encytmedia has a great article that will introduce you to a couple of interesting Ruby structures like Enumerables, Arrays and Hashes.
Business week has some interesting analysis of Java and suggests that It’s So Nineties in terms of a tool for web development. They point to a number of competing technologies like LAMP, Rails and .NET as serious tools in the web arena.
XML.com has a very good article that will introduce you to the concepts of REST on Rails and show you how to implement them in your Rails projects.
Ruby Inside presents 19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don’t Know. There are some real “gems” here like acts_as_nested_set (for selecting nodes of a tree with a single query) and sending files back to a user.
Although this article at ONLamp.com is a few months old now, What Is Ruby on Rails is still a great read and covers the core concepts of this web applicaiton framework.
Here is a great way to get started with Ruby on Rails Developement. The Rails Live CD is a live Linux distribution (based on Mandrake) that includes everything you need to get started with Rails. Some preinstalled goodness:
RadRails
Rails 1.1 was released earlier today. This is the largest upgrade to the popular web app framework with RJS, Active Record, and 500 other things being improved!
IF you’ve been following the Ruby on Rails scene, you may be interested to read What (will be) new in Rails 1.1 by Scott Raymond. Some cool new features like global support for JSON and built in support for many SQL Aggregate functions.
A relatively new feature availaible in Ruby on Rails is a Folksonomy GEM that makes adding tagging to your web apps relatively trivial.
More information on the acts_as_taggable plugin can be found at the Rails Wiki.
