My first attempt at learning Ruby on Rails has been thwarted by the latest release of Ruby on  Rails v2.1.  The book I was reading “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications” published by Sitepoint was written very well but outdated.  The version in the book is 1.2.3.   I was excited about learning to create my own Digg site.  I guess that is why Sitepoint was giving away free copies.  I looked into purchasing the updated version called Simply Rails 2, but after looking through the forums, this edition had some problems too.

I found a much better book called “Agile Web Development with Rails” third edition.  The first edition is among the best selling programming books in the world and won a Jolt award for best technical book.  The print version doesn’t some out until October 2008, but you can download a .pdf version now.  You will recieve updated .pdf versions as the book is revised.    I hope this book turns out to be as good as the reviews.