Learning Rails is now pretty widely available in stores. What looks like our first review suggests that we reached the audience we were aiming for, too!

Screencast Excursions

• Installing Instant Rails on Windows (17 minutes)

• Installing Rails on Ubuntu Hardy Heron desktop (11 minutes)

• Installing Rails on Ubuntu Hardy Heron server (15 minutes)

• First Steps into Rails (on the Mac) (8 minutes)

• First Steps into Rails (on Heroku) (13 minutes) (also note this)

Related Blog Posts

• Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access

• Choosing your application's version of Rails

• Heroku moves forward and sideways

• Templates Offer Rails New Path to Ubiquity (a view from 30,000 feet)

• Getting Started in Rails (about the writing and goals of the book)

• Learning Rails (announcement from Edd Dumbill)

• LearningRails.com - free tutorial podcasts and screencasts

• Railscasts - free screencasts on all kinds of Rails-related topics

• Rails Envy - free and $9 podcasts, screencasts, and video

• RubyOnRails.org - the official home of Rails, including resources and documentation

• Rails Guides - tutorials on specific topics created by the Rails community

• Ruby on Rails Talk - a busy (100 messages daily) email list for Rails discussion

• heroku - develop Rails applications through a web-based interface and/or deploy them to the EC2 cloud

• Riding Rails - a key source of the latest news on Rails releases

• Planet Ruby on Rails - posts aggregated from a variety of Rails-related blogs

• RailsConf 2009 - come learn and talk about Rails, May 4th to 7th, 2009, in Las Vegas

Buy Learning Rails from:

• O'Reilly (US or UK, including ebooks)
• Powell's Books (US)
• Amazon (US)
• Amazon (UK)
• Barnes & Noble (US)
• Borders (US)