Guides:<p><a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/" rel="nofollow">http://guides.rubyonrails.org/</a><p><a href="http://asciicasts.com/" rel="nofollow">http://asciicasts.com/</a> (text versions of the railscasts mentioned below)<p>Screencasts:<p><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts" rel="nofollow">http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts</a><p><a href="http://railscasts.com/" rel="nofollow">http://railscasts.com/</a><p>Books:<p><a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition" rel="nofollow">http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-...</a><p><a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr/advanced-rails-recipes" rel="nofollow">http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr/advanced-rails-recipes</a><p>And others in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails sections at prag progammers: <a href="http://www.pragprog.com/categories" rel="nofollow">http://www.pragprog.com/categories</a><p>The "pickaxe book" (<a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby" rel="nofollow">http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby</a>) is often considered the standard Ruby reference, and there is a version for 1.9.<p>API:<p><a href="http://railsapi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://railsapi.com/</a><p><a href="http://api.rubyonrails.org/" rel="nofollow">http://api.rubyonrails.org/</a><p><a href="http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails" rel="nofollow">http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails</a><p>Conference presentations:<p><a href="http://www.confreaks.com/events" rel="nofollow">http://www.confreaks.com/events</a><p>IRC:<p>irc://irc.freenode.net/#ruby-lang<p>irc://irc.freenode.net/#rubyonrails<p>Google Group:<p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk</a><p>Ruby and Rails projects are abundant on github, providing lots of example code.