Ruby on Rails

Learning something from scratch is almost always an arduous affair -- you simply have no idea as to where to start, or not to start, to kick things off. You don't have to worry about finding the best resources, sorting out the bad ones, and figuring out what to learn next. It's all here. Just follow it, step by step.

Table of Contents

• Curriculum
• Books
• Tutorials
• Articles
• Install Rails
• DevTools
• Built with Rails
• Learn with Code
• Videos
• Help
• Community
• Stay Up to Date
• Podcasts
• Screencasts
• Slides
• Talks
• Style Guides
• Third-party APIs
• More Useful Links
• How to Collaborate

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Curriculum

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

Beginner

Path	Courses	Difficulty	Type
Ruby	Try Ruby	Easy	Web
Ruby	Ruby - Codecademy	Easy	Web
HTML & CSS	HTML & CSS - Codecademy	Easy	Web
Rails	Rails for Zombies Redux	Easy	Video
Rails	Ruby on Rails Tutorial	Easy	Book & Video
Rails	Learn Ruby on Rails (Daniel Kehoe)	Very Easy	Book

Additional

Path	Courses	Difficulty	Type
JavaScript	JavaScript Basics	Easy	Video
Git	Try Git - Code School	Easy	Web
Ruby	Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0	Easy	Book
Rails	Getting Started with Rails	Easy	Web

Intermediate

Path	Courses	Difficulty	Type
Ruby	Ruby - RubyMonk	Medium	Web
Ruby	Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby	Medium	Book
Rails	Rails 4: Zombie Outlaws	Medium	Video
Rails	Agile Web Development with Rails	Medium	Book
Rails	CS169.1x Engineering Software as a Service, Part 1	Medium	Web

Additional

Path	Courses	Difficulty	Type
SQL	Try SQL - Code School	Easy	Video
jQuery	Try jQuery	Easy	Video
Rails	The Rails 4 Way	Medium	Book

Advanced

Path	Courses	Difficulty	Type
Ruby	Ruby - RubyKoans	Medium	Book
Ruby	Metaprogramming Ruby	Hard	Book
Rails	Crafting Rails 4 Applications	Hard	Book

Additional

Path	Courses	Difficulty	Type
Ruby	Eloquent Ruby	Medium	Book

Other Courses

Path	Courses	Level	Type	Access	Platform
Ruby	Ruby Bits	Beginner	Web	Paid	CodeSchool
Ruby	Ruby Bits Part 2	Intermediate	Web	Paid	CodeSchool
Rails	Rails for Zombies 2	Intermediate	Web	Paid	CodeSchool
Rails	Surviving APIs with Rails	Intermediate	Web	Paid	CodeSchool
Rails	Rails 4 Patterns	Advanced	Web	Paid	CodeSchool
Rails	Rails Testing for Zombies	Intermediate	Web	Paid	CodeSchool
Rails	Testing with RSpec	Intermediate	Web	Paid	CodeSchool
Rails	One Month Rails	Beginner	Video	Paid	OneMonthRails
Rails	Learn Rails Development	Beginner	Video	Paid	Treehouse
Rails	Web Application Architectures	Beginner	Web	Free	Coursera
Rails	Learn Ruby on Rails	Beginner	Web	Free	Codecademy
Rails	Ruby on Rails 4 Essential Training	Beginner	Video	Paid	Lynda.com
Ruby	Learn Ruby	All	Video	Paid	envatotuts+
Rails	Learn Rails	All	Video	Paid	envatotuts+

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Books

Beginner

1. Learn to Program
2. Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
3. Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0
4. The Ruby Programming Language
5. Learn Ruby The Hard Way
6. Learn Ruby on Rails (Daniel Kehoe)
7. Ruby on Rails Tutorial
8. Agile Web Development with Rails

Intermediate

1. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
2. The Well-Grounded Rubyist
3. Rails 4 in Action

Advanced

1. Crafting Rails 4 Applications
2. Metaprogramming Ruby
3. Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring
4. The Rails 4 Way
5. Eloquent Ruby
6. Design Patterns in Ruby

Tutorials

1. Capstone Rails Tutorials
2. How to develop a social network using Ruby on Rails
3. SaaS Course - The welcome word - Prograils
4. Facebook Authentication in Ruby on Rails
5. Google Authentication in Ruby On Rails
6. Gmail Like Chat Application in Ruby on Rails
7. Private Inbox System in Rails with Mailboxer

Articles

1. Building a Ruby Gem in 2015 - Matt Brictson
2. 24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development
3. Setting up Sublime Text 3 for Rails Development - Matt Brictson

Install Rails

Recommended

OS	Tutorial
Mac	Rails OS X Setup Guide - Matt Brictson
Ubuntu	Setup Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu - GoRails
Windows	RailsInstaller

Other methods

OS	Tutorial
Mac	Install Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X - RailsApps
Ubuntu	Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu - RailsApps

DevTools

• Sublime Text
• RubyMine
• Vim
• Atom

Built with Rails

1. Twitter
2. Slideshare
3. Github
4. Shopify
5. AirBnb
6. Groupon
7. SoundCloud
8. Square
9. Heroku
10. Basecamp
11. Yellow pages
12. Hulu
13. Urban Dictionary
14. CrunchBase
15. Bloomberg
16. Zendesk
17. Scribd
18. Bleacher Report
19. 500px
20. Ask.fm
21. Dribbble
22. Funny or Die
23. Goodreads
24. Indiegogo
25. Kickstarter
26. LivingSocial
27. Lumosity
28. MyFitnessPal
29. Pixlr
30. Strava
31. Twitch
32. We Heart It
33. Whitepages
34. Yammer
35. ThemeForest

Learn with Code

1. RailsApps Example Applications - Code from the Capstone Rails Tutorials
2. Treebook - A social networking web application with features similar to Facebook.
3. Socify - Socify is an open source social networking platform written in Ruby on Rails.
4. Sample App - The sample app for the 3rd edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial.
5. Pinteresting - This is the pinteresting sample application for One Month Rails
6. MyRecipes -A recipe app written in Ruby on Rails.

Videos

• 12 web apps in 12 weeks - Mackenzie Child

Help

• StackOverflow
• Chatroom (Browser-based IRC)
• Reddit

Community

• Ruby on Rails: Community
• Rails on Twitter
• Ruby on Rails: Talk - Google group
• Ruby Community
• RubyFlow - The Ruby and Rails community linklog

News

• Ruby Weekly
• Ruby Flow

Stay Up to Date

• @dhh: The creator of Ruby on Rails. Posts insight on new releases and various tips.
• @rbates: Producer of Railscasts, posts tips and tricks very often.
• @rails: The official Ruby on Rails Twitter account. Follow them if you want insight on release dates, and development.
• @rails_apps: Daniel Kehoe is posting new Rails example apps pretty often, pretty useful.

Podcasts

• Ruby5
• Ruby Rogues
• 5by5

Screencasts

1. RailsCasts: Ruby on Rails Screencasts
2. GoRails

Slides

1. Testing Ruby with Rspec (a beginner's guide)

Talks

1. The Best of RailsConf 2015
2. Railsconf 2014, Talks I Liked
3. Favorite talks of RailsConf 2013

Style Guides

• A community-driven Ruby coding style guide
• A community-driven Rails 3 & 4 style guide
• GitHub Ruby Coding Style
• Thoughtbot Style Guides

Third-party APIs

• twilio-ruby - A module for using the Twilio REST API and generating valid TwiML.
• twitter - A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.
• wikipedia - Ruby client for the Wikipedia API.
• databasedotcom - Ruby client for the Salesforce's Database.com and Chatter APIs.
• Dropbox - Dropbox API Ruby Client.
• facy - Command line power tool for facebook.
• fb_graph - A full-stack Facebook Graph API wrapper.
• flickr - A Ruby interface to the Flickr API.
• gitlab - Ruby wrapper and CLI for the GitLab API.
• gmail - A Rubyesque interface to Gmail, with all the tools you'll need.
• hipchat-rb - HipChat HTTP API Wrapper in Ruby with Capistrano hooks.
• instagram-ruby-gem - The official gem for the Instagram REST and Search APIs.
• itunes_store_transporter - Ruby wrapper around Apple's iTMSTransporter program.
• linkedin - Provides an easy-to-use wrapper for LinkedIn's REST APIs.
• Octokit - Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API.
• Pusher - Ruby server library for the Pusher API.
• ruby-gmail - A Rubyesque interface to Gmail.
• ruby-trello - Implementation of the Trello API for Ruby.
• Slack ruby gem - A Ruby wrapper for the Slack API.
• soundcloud-ruby - Official SoundCloud API Wrapper for Ruby.
• Yt - An object-oriented Ruby client for YouTube API V3.
• t - A command-line power tool for Twitter.
• tweetstream - A simple library for consuming Twitter's Streaming API.

More Useful Links

• The Ruby Toolbox - Know Your Options!

How to Collaborate

Send a pull request or just open an issue to send more useful links! After it, I'll update the list!