Books to Learn Ruby on Rails

Head First Rails: A Learner's Companion to Ruby on Rails: David Griffiths: 9780596515775: Amazon.com: Books

Uses older Rails practices, but a good resource for visual learners.

The Rails View: Create a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience: Bruce Williams, John Athayde: 9781934356876: Amazon.com: Books

A book for designers...great overview of the asset pipeline

Beginning Rails 3 (Expert's Voice in Web Development): Cloves Carneiro Jr., Rida Al Barazi: 9781430224334: Amazon.com: Books

Learn how to build a blog application

Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition: Chad Fowler: 9781934356777: Amazon.com: Books

Not really for beginners, but has some very cool tips & tricks

Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Facets of Ruby): Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt: 9781934356081: Amazon.com: Books

The best book if you are trying to learn the Ruby language.

Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition (9781934356166): Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson

Good book for learning the important parts of Rails

Learn to Program, Second Edition (The Facets of Ruby Series): Chris Pine: 9781934356364: Amazon.com: Books

If new to programming, this is the 1st place to start

Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series): Michael Hartl: 9780321832054: Amazon.com: Books

Work your way through building a Twitter clone, one of my favorites

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