Resources

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Here’s my list of useful sites about Rails that you might want to see. This list is definitely going to be huge, but I’ll think about that later.

Hendy Irawan on Small Business Ideas. My personal website where I blog about growing a small business, especially for technopreneurs.
David Heinemeier Hansson. Personal blog of Rails’ creator.
Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals). Blog of 37signals, lots of useful information by the people who developed Rails.
whytheluckystiff. You will have a hard time finding Ruby-related stuff there. He’s an excellent combination of artist and developer. He’s got lots of amusing things going on there.
err.the_blog. VERY useful information practically daily. Highly recommended.
Garbage Burrito. A blog by Ben Kittrell.
Ruby Inside. From the site: “Ruby blog with daily tips, news, code, and fun.”
Ruby on Rails Blog. News and stuff.
O’Reilly Ruby. Lots of news and information from this publishing company.
Creating Passionate Users. It’s not about Rails, but definitely important usability and businessy stuff for all kinds of project. The content is 101% high quality stuff. Highly recommended!

My Review of Ruby on Rails Books. Check this out for complete reviews on the best Rails-related books I’ve read.
Agile Web Development with Rails. The first book you should have when developing with Rails. It’s somewhat “official” since it has David Heinemeier Hansson as one of its authors.
Rails Recipes. Lots of tips, techniques, tricks. Very helpful & highly recommended.

Planet Ruby on Rails. Several Rails-related articles, blog posts, etc.
Ruby on Rails Official Site. Just as the name suggests.
Ruby on Rails Wiki. Lots of useful information, but occasionally vandalized.
Ruby on Rails Manuals. Several high quality formatted manual books. If you don’t like browsing them online it also has full-book exports to several formats including HTML of course.
RailsManual.org. Complete searchable documentation of Ruby on Rails.
PluginAWeek. “Conquering the Rails world 1 plugin at a time.” An open-source plugins project by Aaron Pfeifer and Neil Abraham.
Agile Web Development. Developed by Benjamin Curtis. “AgileWebDevelopment.com is a site dedicated to helping you in your web development efforts. Here you will find tips and resources to help you have more joy with your Ruby on Rails projects.”

My Review of Rails Hosting Services. Check here to see detailed reviews and recommendations (by me and also others).
Rails Web Hosting List at Ruby on Rails Wiki. A very long list (but occasionally vandalized).
DreamHost. Very affordable Rails hosting with lots of space & bandwidth.
RailsPlayground. Advanced Rails hosting that doesn’t break your bank. Starts at $5/month with PostgreSQL and Subversion support.
RailsMachine. I haven’t reviewed it yet, but Ben Kittrell loves them.

Ruby Official Site. Official site of the Ruby programming language.
Ruby-Doc.org. Several useful Ruby documentation packed into one.
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. Excellent Ruby tutorial for newbies. Highly recommended.

Rails Engines. Allows you to have somewhat mini-apps inside your Rails app. Highly recommended.
MasterView. Developed by Jeff Barczewski of Inspired Horizons™ (he’s a technical architect for RGA and web developer for 15 years.)
His description: “MasterView™ is a ruby/rails optimized HTML/XHTML friendly template engine. It is designed to use the full power and productivity of rails including layouts, partials, and rails html helpers while still being editable/styleable in a WYSIWYG HTML editor.”
My take: It means you can edit the layout, the template, and all partials in one file, and when save you save it MasterView will take care of all the updating for you. Very cool idea and definitely helpful & time-saver, especially if you work with a web designer. (they tend to make slight changes and refresh often.)
Aptana (RadRails). Excellent HTML / JavaScript / Ruby on Rails visual designer/editor.
NetBeans. Version 6.0 onwards has excellent Ruby on Rails development support.
ZenTest + autotest. Very helpful for testing. Here’s a review.

Web2Announcer. Many things Web 2.0, always constantly updated.
craigbellamy.net. He profiles lots of Web 2.0 applications/sites and writes many things Web 2.0. Excellent work.

My Furl Archive about Ruby & Rails. Lots and lots of useful links. Anything Ruby/Rails I found is always posted here first.
del.icio.us/tag/rubyonrails. The official Ruby on Rails tag at del.icio.us.
swik.net/Rails. Rails page at Swik.net.
swik.net/Ruby. Ruby page at Swik.net.
Hobix. whytheluckystiff never ceases to amaze me.
From the site: “Hobix is a new coat, but it’s really funky, you gotta be adventurous and intrepid. You have to be able to do a triple front-flip without using your legs at all. If you use Hobix and you can’t do a triple front-flip without using your legs, then you will go to Federal prison. Because you’re almost definitely pullin other heists that are unpaid, comin after ya.”
Translation (also from the site): “Hobix is written in Ruby and all the scripting you’ll do will be in Ruby. But, Ruby is pretty simple, so that’s why I said you had to be adventurous but I didn’t say too sly. Ruby’s a pretty language and you’ll go for it.”

AdaRuby