Is there a guide to Rails for experienced Rubyists?

Question

A few years back, I started learning Ruby/Rails from some beginner's guide for Rails. I had learned the basics of Rails then, such as some of the convention over configuration for models and routes, and how to use helpers etc. However, I didn't stick with it long because I found Sinatra soon thereafter, and decided I personally liked it much better.

I ended up really loving Ruby though, and I've written a lot of Ruby since, almost none of which was for any Rails project. However, it turns out that the majority of Ruby work available is for Rails applications. So I'd like to take another stab at Rails now.

Now, the reference is great and has a lot of good information, but I only look at a reference for the particular things I need and don't remember off the top of my head. But it's unlikely I'll come across details like script/console in the reference.

I also don't want to go through beginners' tutorials as they seem to all assume that you don't know Ruby or programming even. I don't want to wade through explanations of what a conditional statement is or details about Ruby which I already know interspersed among the Rails information.

I just want a succinct, no-nonsense overview/guide to Rails (without Ruby information intermixed). Does it exist?

Answer 1

The rails guides are by far my favorite resource!

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

Answer 2

I would recommend The Rails 3 Way for a good introduction to Rails at both a high level and fine grained details, without the "Welcome to Programming" tone.

Answer 3

I just got this one, and it looks really good so far:

http://pragprog.com/titles/jvrails/crafting-rails-applications