Treats some more complex parts of Web application programming, in simple style; text, screenshots, diagrams, code samples.

Tutorial to manually build and install four programs, on Mac OS X 10.4: Tiger. [Hivelogic]

Article introduces installing and deploying RoR; text and code samples. Host Library.

How to turn Rails programs into standalone programs, via Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe; not the proper way to deploy Rails programs on production servers; by Erik Veenstra.

Recent Web development system growing fast, automates making most common application types, allows meeting custom or atypical needs. Compared to many Free Software libraries that do parts of applications, RoR integrated tool set does all parts. Text, ...

Tutorial, divided into simple subtasks, formatted for two-sided printing on 40 pages A4; for Linux, Windows. Files: PDF, zip. [English, Spanish, Portuguese; Chinese, Japanese, Korean]

Basics of why Rails is cool, installing Ruby and Rails, setting up database, creating scaffolding, customizing program. Webmonkey.

Detailed tutorial; text, code samples.

Article presents best ones that Ideacodes LLC web consultant Max Kiesler found over the last year of many hours searching google, del.icio.us, digg, etc., looking for usable and relevant examples.

RoR for newbies, Weblog on wide range of beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics; by Geoffrey Grosenbach, host of official RoR Podcast, and producer of PeepCode screencasts.