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
- A Hodel 3000 Compliant Logger for the Rest of Us | Ruby on Rails for Newbies
- YARD Documentation
- RDoc Documentation
- Gerbil 3.1.0 user guide
- New ez_where plugin.
- PlasticRain
- Acts As Revisionable
- Plugins - acts_as_trashable - Agile Web Development
- delynnberry.com: Userstamp
- Plugins - Annotate models - Agile Web Development
- #haml.download
- Craig Ambrose: Agile Web Development
- CalendarGrid
- Gluttonous : Tormenting Your Tests with Heckle
Check the full list here.
My Ruby and Rails delicious
- Smiley: An app in 24 hours - (37signals)
Simple minds, real-time tools http://bit.ly/dtUBDf @37signals #rails - 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it’s been.
A sweat story about founding a cloud startup, technical side, by Ezra Zygmuntowicz #rails hero http://bit.ly/8YEAHb - How to Support 5,000 Customers with No Support Staff « Lew’s Blog
How to #support 5,000 customers with no support engineers. Use #saas and build hi-fi code with #rails http://bit.ly/aq4nWb - Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | by Michael Hartl
- Tech Jobs: Design, Programming, Rails, Executive, and more.
So #ruby and #rails is not for #apple RT @dhh: We're hiring an iOS/mobile developer at @37signals: http://bit.ly/9jAniy - Open Source Newscloud
- ubiquo
- acts as tree simple menu (Page 1) - Tutorials - Rails Forum - Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum
- Heroku vs EngineYard Cloud vs Joyent - blog.eliotsykes.com
- Switching Rails to PostgreSQL « OLM On Rails
- flyingsaucer’s jitterbug at master - GitHub
- Hacker News | Thank you, Rails
- Sinatra deployment and performance on Slicehost, Heroku, and Google App Engine | JZ * LABS - the web experiment playground of jason ting
- tobi’s clarity at master - GitHub
- EngineY
Check the full list here.