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Just out from a pack of several of the world’s greatest Ruby and/on Rails programmers: Professional Ruby Collection: Mongrel, Rails Plugins, Rails Routing, Refactoring to REST, and Rubyisms.

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Information that’s so hot, new, and valuable, you can’t wait for a book. This package brings together 8 breakthrough primers on today’s most valuable Ruby and Rails technologies — including five new digital Short Cuts worth $69.95! From RailsSpace to ActiveRecord to Mongrel, here’s new content, techniques, and code from the Ruby community’s top innovators: insider’s information that’s never been available before in one place.

I love this presentation:

The slide tells shows a lot of ideas about:

• Designer – Programmer/Developer collaboration
• Good design principles
• Use Rails optimally
• The philosophy of web development
• How to go from concept to development to production
• Did I mention lots of ideas!!??

Seriously, don’t walk, but run to download that thing!!

From Chad Fowler of the indispensable Rails Recipes, and with the help of Mike Clark, here are 72 new ways to kick your Ruby on Rails apps up a notch. Advanced Rails Recipes is a collection of practical recipes for dressing up your web application with little fuss. You’ll learn how the pros have solved the tough problems using the most cutting-edge Rails techniques so you can deliver your stunning web app quicker and easier.

<br />Developers by the thousands are coming to Rails-the benefits are clear, both to individuals and their organizations.

Apress’ Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce is easily one of the few (or the first?) Rails books who is able to broadly cover most aspects of Rails web development. Christian Hellsten and Jarkko Laine, the authors, will guide you from the point of installing the necessary software (including the Ubuntu Linux operating system), preparing the Scrum development process, to the very end of deployment and performance tuning. I say this book a “full-stack” since there’s not just development in here, but lots of bits about systems administration and project management.