Learning Rails is now available in a Live Edition! It currently covers Rails 2.3.5, but if you buy it, you'll also get updates all the way through Rails 3.x.
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
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)
Other Resources
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

