For documentation, a good place to start is on the main Rails site - http://rubyonrails.org/documentation . The Rails Guides can be a helpful source, and they are typically one of the most up-to-date places for info.
Book-wise, the discussion of "which book is the best" could fill a whole thread of its own. I got started with the first edition of Agile Web Development with Rails, so I'd lean towards recommending the current 3rd edition of that. Whatever you pick, try to avoid anything published before 2008, as Rails has been evolving rapidly lately. As far as plugins, there's simply too many different use cases to recommend any particular one over all the others. Github's search function can sometimes help here. Whatever you find, pay attention to the commit history; nothing worse than getting stuck with a dead plugin. --Matt Jones On Jun 25, 6:00 pm, Learn by Doing <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, > > Thank you very much for your valuable advices. I will definitely need > to check out the latest good book on Rails. Which one would you > recommend? > > I also have discovered the wonder of plugins. Which plugins would you > recommend for user authentication, file uploads and other common tasks > for a social networking site? > > I am trying to build a social networking site. That's why the > step-by-step instructions in RailsSpace are so convenient albeit sorely > out-of-date. I have been spending quite a bit of time debugging and > updating the code to Rails 2.3.2. Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thank you. > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
