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Rails Tutorials: Recommended Ruby on Rails Tutorials

by Daniel Kehoe

Last updated 30 April 2012

Recommended Ruby on Rails tutorials for beginners.

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Learning Ruby		Authors
RubyMonk	free browser-based interactive tutorial	C42 Engineering

Learning Rails		Authors
Ruby on Rails Tutorial	book covers Rails 3.2, available for free online	Michael Hartl
Rails for Zombies	free tutorial with in-browser coding	Code School
Rails 3 In Action	book covers Rails 3.1	Yehuda Katz and Ryan Bigg
Agile Web Development with Rails	ebook covers Rails 3.2	Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson

Learning BDD & TDD		Authors
The RSpec Book	covers RSpec and Cucumber	David Chelimsky and others
The Cucumber Book	covers Cucumber	Matt Wynne and Aslak Hellesøy
The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls	free introduction to Cucumber	David de Florinier and Gojko Adzic

Tutorials with Example Apps
Rails 3.2 Tutorial: Devise, RSpec, Cucumber	Example App	App Template	Devise for authentication with ActiveRecord and SQLite for a database
Rails 3.2 Tutorial: Twitter Bootstrap, Devise, CanCan	Example App	App Template	Devise for authentication, CanCan for authorization, Twitter Bootstrap for CSS
Rails 3.2 Tutorial: Startup Prelaunch Signup	Example App	App Template	For a startup prelaunch signup site
Rails 3.2 Tutorial: Devise, Mongoid	Example App	App Template	Devise for authentication with a MongoDB datastore
Rails 3.2 Tutorial: OmniAuth, Mongoid	Example App	App Template	OmniAuth for authentication with a MongoDB datastore
Rails 3.2 Tutorial: Subdomains, Devise, Mongoid	Example App	App Template	Basecamp-style subdomains with Devise and MongoDB

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