Alas, the pace of Rails has been so quick that the tools pointed to on this lens were completely and totally out of date. I intend to do something about that in the coming days and weeks and hope to bring together a great collections of resources. For now, enjoy the RSS feeds.
Do we need free tutorials?
Is the community suffering?
The majority of rails tutorials available on-line for free deal with Rails in its infancy. Is the time now ripe for free, easily-distributable tutorials to help the next generation of coders get up to speed without having to fork out money?
The question here though, is what are YOU going to do about it?
Ruby and Rails books on Amazon
Everything you need from the biggest bookshop of all
Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers)
A 2nd-edition is due out soon that brings this classic text up to date, but in the meantime, there are few books that will get you as familiar as this with the core material
Amazon Price: (as of 07/13/2009) 
Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers
Ruby can take some getting used to, and even experienced Ruby coders benefit from learning how best to use the language in this environment. Great book, worth every penny.
Amazon Price: $29.67 (as of 07/13/2009)
Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)
Once you know the basics, this Recipe book helps you do some cool new tricks that show you're a Rails pro - it also helps you understand more about how Rails works and how you can extend the basic functionality beyond the standard API and toy applications
Amazon Price: $21.75 (as of 07/13/2009)
Hacking with Ruby: Ruby and Rails for the Real World
Amazon Price: (as of 07/13/2009)
Ruby on Rails stuff on eBay
Bit skint?
If you can't afford new Rails books, 2nd-hand are often just as good
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Planet Ruby on Rails
All the Rails blogs in one place
Planet RubyonRails gives an aggregate feed of pretty much every Rails feed out there - here are the top stories....
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Announcements from the Ruby on Rails team
The incredible pace of development of Ruby on Rails means that sometimes we can get left behind. Here you can see the latest developments from the core team and see any announcements that you might want to consider before jumping into any tutorials.
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