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“First of all, to get any serious documentation on how to use the framework, you have to buy Pragmatic Programmer’s Ruby on Rails book. While its a good read and all, its a $40 US dollars (ok, now its $19.95, but I bought it when it was recently published) entry price to get serious on the subject. Another good resource are the Peepcode’s videos. They are excellent reference material, but still there’s a cost. Its not that I’m against commerce and all that. I’m just making the point that there’s very little or no good documentation for rails for free. Plus, there’s a disadvantage on printed books that they’re not up to date with the latest changes. There’s a lot of “when rails2 comes out…” comments on it.” source...