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Rolling with Ruby on Rails is a new tutorial that goes through building a sample application from start (installing all software [rails, db, etc]) to finish (a running application).
Rails is really getting a lot of attention, and could be the tipping point for Ruby itself this year.
Parting Thoughts
Ruby on Rails has taken web application development to a whole new level. You no longer need to do the parts that used to be tedious work, because Rails does them for you. Even if you have to use a legacy database that does not use the Rails naming conventions, you don't have to give up the productivity advantages of using Rails--there is still a way to tell Rails explicitly what table and column names to use.
Now that you've seen firsthand how easy it can be to create a web application, why would you want to do it any other way?
Perhaps your employer has mandated a particular framework or language. You can still take a few days to prototype it in Rails, then go to your boss and say, "I've already finished writing our entire application in Ruby on Rails! If you prefer, we can still take the next few months to write it as we originally planned."
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