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Jim Rutherford has written a great article on this Digital Media Minute blog listing top 12 Ruby on Rails tutorials.

Rolling with Ruby on Rails – Curtis Hibbs of ONLamp.com offers his first excellent introduction to Ruby on Rails. This is the article that got me really excited about RoR.Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2 – The sequel to Curtis Hibbs excellent series of articles.Four Days on Rails (PDF) – a great tutorial that is broken down into simple tasks that you can do over a four day period. To be quite honest, this tutorial only takes about 2 hours, but nonetheless it is very well organized!Really Getting Started in Rails – Amy Hoy has a great tutorial that not only covers RoR, but also introduces the reader to many of the basic concepts of the very cool Ruby scripting language.Tutorial in Ruby on Rails – is a basic tutorial aimed at newbies.Fast-track your Web apps with Ruby on Rails – IBM jumps into the sandbox with an excellent (as usual) tutorial to get you on your feet fast.Getting Your Feet Wet With Ruby on Rails – Talking about getting on your feet fast, this one from Webmonkey promises to get them wet too!How to make a todo list program with Rails – Another excellent introductory tutorial that actually helps you build something useful!Ajax on Rails – Curtis Hibbs offers part 3 of his look at RoRMany to Many Tutorial for Rails (PDF) – is a nice document that begins to delve into some of the more complex parts of web application programming, but in fine Ruby on Rails manner, it’s really not too complicated!Distributing Rails Applications – A Tutorial – So now you’ve built your RoR application, how to you push it to a production server? This tutorial covers the bases.Installing Ruby on Rails with Lighttpd and MySQL on Fedora Core 4 – and of course this list wouldn’t be complete without a shameless bit of self-promotion, this tutorial promises what it says. Other install tutorials can be found here, here and here!

It has been a while since my last post. Lot of changes in my life have happened over last month or so, the arrival of Maya (our daughter and first child), change in career direction, etc; so as a consequence two hobbies of mine have suffered, the blog and the BMW.Well, all should be back on track now with hopefully close to daily posts on the blog. Since I am a proud father, there is no better way to end a post such as this but with a photo of Maya…