Ruby on Rails: Beginner's Tutorials

"Although there are very good resources out there, they need to be combined with others as well.At the bottom of this tutorial, I'm also going to list resources that I have found useful in the past as well. "

Apple's guide for developing your first Rails application.

A solid Rails tutorial with a lot of explanation rather than just mindless code.

An extensive how-to library containing sample programs.

Brief overview of the schematics of a Rails app.

Contents
1 Why Ruby is Cool
2 Why Rails Is Cool
3 Installing Ruby and Rails
4 Using It

Sample code is worth its weight in gold, so here’s how to get a basic Rails application running.