There are many ways to learn Rails and here are a few that seem to work from me:

1. del.icio.us - Subscribe to the Ruby on Rails tag. This feed constantly brings the latest and greatest from the Rails world into your RSS reader. While I read somewhere recently that you will never learn the language by just reading the code (which I agree with), it helps to see what is going on within the community.

2. Tutorials - I try to do a couple of tutorials a week. Often times a list of tutorials will come through my del.icio.us RSS feed and I try to do the tutorials listed. Mainly tutorials are useful if you are trying to do similar things within your app. Going through tutorials helps one understand how the source code works together, but must be applied right away to whatever you are doing. Otherwise it’s just like reading the code and not coding.

3. Books - There are a few great books out there, my favorite being the O’Reilly book, “Ruby on Rails: Up and Running.” Books are nice because they usually take you through the process of learning a whole application, versus just knowing a few snapshots of it.

That’s about it. How do you get your daily dose of Rails?

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