Please find the list of resources I’m using for learning and the resources I’m using for programming Ruby and Rails.
If you are a Rails begiiner reading these books is almost a must. Please take this advice serious! 
Books
Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby… by Russ Olsen
The Art of Rails (Programmer to Programmer) by Edward Benson
Sources for learning
- Documentation — API Dock | Documentation with examples for Ruby, Rails and RSpec. It is tracking the differences in various versions, there is a community around this project
- Learning / Getting started — The RubyLearning Blog | It seems this blog is gaining momentum …
- News — Ruby Flow | Community filtered news; Regular readers will be updated with the Ruby, Rails, Merb world, people, trends, new tutorials, plugins & more
- News / Community — RailsEnvy | Still a good place to find the latest about the Ruby, Rails, Merb … world
- Tutorials / Screencasts — Railscats with Ryan Bates | 100+ video tutorials, all of them for FREEE
Plugins I use / considering to use
- Home — will_paginate — GitHub Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:20:06
- A Hodel 3000 Compliant Logger for the Rest of Us | Ruby on Rails for Newbies Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:06:34
- YARD Documentation Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:45:07
- RDoc Documentation Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:30:10
- Gerbil 3.1.0 user guide Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:48:44
- New ez_where plugin. Wed, 28 May 2008 19:07:06
- PlasticRain Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:40:12
- Acts As Revisionable Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:47:47
- Plugins - acts_as_trashable - Agile Web Development Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:47:47
- delynnberry.com: Userstamp Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:47:47
Check the full list here.
My Ruby and Rails delicious
- zbruhnke/bloggy Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:40:42
- spastorino/rails-api Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:56:37
- Cloudinary Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:24:07
- Testing like the TSA - (37signals) Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:49:40
- Lowdown Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:04:15
- mattetti/sinatra-web-api-example Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:09:17
- sferik/rails_admin Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:11:36
- Blog Migrations · mojombo/jekyll Wiki Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:24:12
- enki-wp-importer/main.rb at master · rb2k/enki-wp-importer · GitHub Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:10:30
- NateW/obtvse Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:57:41
Check the full list here.