Resources for Learning Ruby & Ruby on Rails

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been “hitting the books” pretty hard when it comes to Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Here are a number of resources which I have found to be useful and would recommend to other Ruby newcomers:

Tutorials/Guides and Documentation:

http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/book/

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

http://www.codeschool.com/

http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/ruby/

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/index.html

https://github.com/styleguide/ruby

http://api.rubyonrails.org/

http://apidock.com/

http://ruby-doc.org/

http://rubydoc.info

Screencasts, etc:

http://railscasts.com/

http://asciicasts.com

http://ruby5.envylabs.com

Good programs to code with:

RubyMine
http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

Sublime Text 2
http://www.sublimetext.com/2

Github Tools:

Tower (mac)
http://www.git-tower.com/

Console Tools:

iTerm 2 (mac):
http://www.iterm2.com/

I highly recommend zsh (used in conjunction with prezto) for your shell
https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
http://railscasts.com/episodes/308-oh-my-zsh
https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto