# What is the best ruby on rails doc/guide/tutorial/book?

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**Created:** [April 29, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-ruby-on-rails-doc-guide-tutorial-book/93224 "2007-04-29T16:21:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-ruby-on-rails-doc-guide-tutorial-book/93224/1 "2007-04-29T16:21:05Z")

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Hi,  
after playing a bit with ruby I also wanna put my head into ruby on  
rails. What is the best paper to learn from? What advice can you give  
me?

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-ruby-on-rails-doc-guide-tutorial-book/93224/2 "2007-04-29T19:23:18Z")

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Hi!  
There’re a lot of good books on Rails ([http://www.rubyonrails.com/books](http://www.rubyonrails.com/books))  
on paper and in PDF; the most popular probably are:

1. “Agile Web D. with Rails”, 2nd ed. by Dave T. & David  
Heinemeier H. (with Leon Breedt, Mike C., James Duncan Davidson,  
Justin Gehtland, Andreas S.) - Pragmatic Programmers, 2006. 715 p.  
/ PDF, 6.6 MB
2. “Ruby on Rails: Up and Running” by Bruce A. Tate & Curt H. -  
O’Reilly, 2006. 184 p. / CHM, 1.13 MB / PDF, 2.7 MB

(1) is a classical comprehensive tutorial, (2) is very good for quick  
start.  
Some links to tutorials can be found at: [http://www.rubyonrails.com/docs](http://www.rubyonrails.com/docs)

Regards,  
Mike S. (Mikhail Shokhirev)

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-ruby-on-rails-doc-guide-tutorial-book/93224/3 "2007-04-29T19:30:19Z")

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anansi wrote:

> Hi,  
> after playing a bit with ruby I also wanna put my head into ruby on  
> rails. What is the best paper to learn from? What advice can you give me?

I’d start with David A. Black’s _Ruby for Rails_.  
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-ruby-on-rails-doc-guide-tutorial-book/93224/4 "2007-04-29T23:45:43Z")

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On Apr 29, 12:53 pm, Ewald C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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Being new to the community myself, I agree with these recommendations,  
especially PickAxe and David Black’s book.

Mike B.

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-ruby-on-rails-doc-guide-tutorial-book/93224/5 "2007-04-29T22:54:37Z")

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Hi,

Amen to adding David’s book to your collection!  
Between that, “Agile Web D. with Rails” and  
the Pickaxe, you’ve got your Ruby and Rails bases  
covered, with precious little redundancy between them.  
I really value David’s book for giving one a feel for  
Ruby idioms _and_ Rails idioms though. As a newbie to  
both, it has given me that bit more confidence in  
understanding the two overlapping cultures.

Ewald C.

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