best ruby book (web orientated)

[Louis Moloney]

hi

Currently at work I use java/struts but its been decided to have a look at ruby on rails , with a view to doing a small web based project in it.

can anyone recommend a good book to learn from? i need a book that will be web orientated , as thats the dev domain it will be used for.

[Prabhakar Chaganti]

I would recommend these two books if you want to learn rails:

Agile web development with rails - Dave Thimas and David Hansson
Ruby for Rails - David Black

[Lasse Koskela]

+1 for the pragmatic title. I've also heard a lot of good things said about Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce.

[Prabhakar Chaganti]

The reason I like the David Black book is that it gives you a better understanding of the Ruby language itself and how it provides a lot of the magic behind rails. You can use rails without knowing too much Ruby, as Rails is almost like a DSL itself, but to be really proficient, you will need to gain a deeper understanding of Ruby the language.

[Louis Moloney]

thanks for the input guys.

i think im gonna get the agile one and the david black one. work is paying after all

[Alex Lewis]

To learn Ruby I'm using Learning Ruby by Michael Fitzgerald. It's very new and fairly short (238 pages).
[ June 20, 2007: Message edited by: Alex Lewis ]