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Ruby on Rails: An extensive roundup of resources, projects, books, links, hosts and more.

April 16, 2006 on 2:26 am | In Rails, RoR, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, programming |

Update: This article was added to digg. Please digg it!

Update #2: Thanks for all the comments. Adding all the resources to the list.

After seeing new Rails write-ups, tutorials, projects, etc.. pop up almost everyday, I decided to try and go through a lot of them and post the best and most useful ones. Below, you will find what I believe are to be the some of the best Ruby on Rails resources. If you know of some that I have missed, let me know via comments/email, and I’ll probably add them to the list.
Official Sites:

RubyOnRails.org : Official RoR website.
The Ruby on Rails Wiki : With Begginer info, Install guides for virtually any OS, Examples, HowTos(getting RoR to work with your DB, Test, Develop, etc), Tips & Tricks and lots more.
Rails Complete API

Tutorials:

Beginner’s Guide to Rails, part 1 : A series of tutorials for beginners.
Getting Your Feet Wet With Ruby on Rails :
Create Todo List with Ruby on Rails : A beginner’s Ruby on Rails tutorial - Creating a Todo App. (or download the PDF)
Using Ruby on Rails for Dev on Mac OSX : A great tutorial by Apple, a must if you are going to be developing with RoR on OS X.
Rolling with Ruby on Rails : An extensive beginner’s guide from Curt Hibbs on onlamp.com
Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2 : Part 2 of Rolling with Ruby on Rails.
Ajax on Rails : Curt Hibbs’ third RoR tutorial.
Distributing Rails Applications : Putting your Rails apps into production mode.
Ruby on Rails on Oracle : A Simple Tutorial.
Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger : Another great OS X tutorial.
Ruby QuickRef : A useful Ruby language quick reference guide. (Thanks jopotts!)
Instant Rails : A one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. (Thanks zonaprestiti!)

Articles:

Ruby on Rails Open Source Apps:

Simple Ticket : A Ruby on Rails based trouble ticket system.
Substruct : The first Ruby On Rails Shopping Cart.
Typo : Rails weblog.
Hieraki2 : Wiki Meets Online Doc System.
Collaboa : Project Tracker.
Eribium : a content managing system packed full of features. (Thanks Alex!)
Ajax Scaffold : get up an running with Rails and AJAX quickly. (Thanks Richard White!)

Some of the Real World Rails Sites (Thanks fanarama!):

BaseCamp : A unique project collaboration tool.
43Things : Find your 43 things.
CrispyNews : a site that allows anyone to create a community news site–for free.
Kiko : a great, dead simple calendar you can use right in your web browser.
Penny Arcade
Here is a more complete list of Real World Rails Usage.

Rails Books:

Agile Web Development with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide
Ruby on Rails: Up and Running : From O’rielly, this is the Rough Cuts version. This book will be released July 1st. You can purchase the PDF now.
Rails Recipes : a collection of recipes that will take you step by step through the the most cutting edge Rails techniques. This book will be released May 1st. You can purchase the PDF version now.
Ruby for Rails : Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers : This book is available for purchase as a PDF or paperback.

Rails Hosting:

TextDrive : TextDrive is a hosting company run by and for people who love publishing on the web. With plans starting as low as $12 per month.
3SHost : Rails hosting starting at $10 per month.
DreamHost : Rails hosting for as low as $9.95 per month. (Coupon Code #1: 50RAILS and get $50 off when signing up. [Thanks Will Merydith!]. Coupon Code #2: SAVE96DOLLARS saves $96. [Thanks jopotts!]).
HostingRails : Curious about rails? This free plan will get you started, but be aware of the small amount of disk space(50MB) and low montly transfer limit(1GB). No Ads, just free hosting for rails!
You can find hundreds of more hosts listed on the Rails Wiki site.

Firefox extension:

Search Ruby On Rails Docs with Firefox

Other:

RadRails : An integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. (Thanks gookie from digg!)

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Nice list.

Here are some apps in rails:
http://www.basecamphq.com/
http://www.43things.com/
http://www.odeo.com/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/
http://www.crispynews.com/
http://www.kiko.com/

A full list is available here:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RealWorldUsage

Comment by fanarama — April 16, 2006 #
Great collection of links - some I haven’t found yet.

I’m using Dreamhost for my Rails development. Their Rails support so far has been great.

You can use the coupon code ‘50RAILS’ and get $50 off when signing up at Dreamhost.

Comment by Will Merydith — April 17, 2006 #
Am I’m just getting started on learning Ruby too! Thank you! :D

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Great post, I suggest also:
Instant Rails, a package that contain Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run : http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/

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Comment by en3r0 — April 18, 2006 #
Such a great resource list.
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Great post

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Here’s a useful Ruby language quick ref page:
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Comment by jopotts — April 18, 2006 #
Another Ruby on Rails Open Source App is Eribium, a content managing system packed full of features. I suggest this should be added to the list? Check it out:
http://www.eribium.org

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http://www.ajaxscaffold.com

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Thanks anyway.

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