Ruby tutorials: http://www.math.umd.edu/%7Edcarrera/ruby/0.3/ (basic) http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby/ (funny, different and good) A lot of Ruby documentation in general: http://ruby-doc.org/ Two nice tutorials on Rails (although with a couple of bugs): http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/03/rails.html But if you really want to learn Ruby I recommend the Pickaxe book: http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ The free web version doesn't cover the latest version of Ruby but it's still correct. It just doesn't cover some newer features. /Marcus ps. Learn how to use blocks/closures. They are your best friend. Really!