What are your favorite Ruby on Rails books and why?

Question

I am looking to pick up some books on RoR in order to teach myself how to build a scalable RoR application. I read the RailsSpace book, and tonight I am starting the Rails Way book.

Some topics of interest:

• REST - considering using Amazon SimpleDB
• Using RSpec Effectively
• memcached - server architecture and code implementation
• mongrel - server architecture
• MySQL

Answer 1

Agile Web Development With Rails is always a good starting point for Rails beginners.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 5

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Answer 8

"The Rails Way". , .

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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• Ruby on Rails
• Just Rails 2.0
• Agile Web evelopment with Rails

They are all good, (probably listed in order of difficulty)

Answer 11

Agile Web Development With Rails - My Favorite Rails Book!

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