Where to Learn More

API Documentation and Guides

• Online you can lookup API documentation at apidock.com or gotapi.com
• You can build the API doc locally with “rake doc:rails” and access them at doc/api/index.html
• You can build the Rails guides locally with “rake doc:guides” and access them at doc/guides/index.html

Recommended Books

• Agile Web Development with Rails, 3d edition – available as PDF.
• Programming Ruby, 3d edition – available as PDF.
• The Ruby Programming Language
• Beginning Ruby – en easier introduction to Ruby if you have little programming experience
• The Ruby Way and Ruby Cookbook
• Advanced Rails Recipes – available as PDF
• Deploying Rails Applications – available as PDF

Recommended Educational Screencasts

• RailsCasts – excellent short screencasts for free
• PeepCode – long and in-depth screencasts for $9 each
• EnvyCasts – long and in-depth screencasts for $9 each
• Pragmatic Programmer – meta programming, forms etc. for $5 each
• Scaling Rails Screencasts – good free screencasts on caching

Staying Up-To-Date

• Riding Rails – the official Rails weblog
• Ruby Inside – Ruby news
• Rails Inside – Rails news
• RailsEnvy Podcast – weekly Ruby and Rails updates
• What’s new in Edge Rails – Ryan Daigle writes about new Rails features