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
- mattdbridges/validates_formatting_of - GitHub Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:10:51
- #271 Resque - RailsCasts Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:55:10
- Mustache, ERB and the future of templating — Warpspire Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:11:22
- jquery-tmpl-rails: jQuery Templates for the Rails asset pipeline | Jimmy Cuadra Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:53:27
- solnic.eu: Making ActiveRecord Models Thin Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:32:31
- Backends in Rails 3.1 - Adventures with Ruby Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:28:17
- Scaling a web site using HTTP caching and JS async calls | Merbist Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:10:18
- Building a Platform API on Rails | Miso Engineering Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:00:10
- Redis To Go | Resque with Redis To Go Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:23:22
- jcxplorer/snowfinch - GitHub Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:49:49
Check the full list here.