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Blaise - the Gang of Four is a priceless resource for learning Design Patterns concepts and strategies but I don't know how useful it will be with RoR which imposes one Pattern on the developer, namely the Model View Controller pattern. I can recommend the Agile Development book highly, though as was mentioned the 2nd edition is vital because things have changed significantly since the 1st edition. I had a brief immersion in RoR last fall and ultimately got frustrated and walked away for a while. It is true that dazzling things can be done but as a sole practitioner I realized that RoR's great power and flexibility demands , among other things,more knowledge of server configuration and MySQL than I had, and I didn't have a team to back me up in the areas I was weak in. It also is a rapidly changing framework which generates a lot of energy and excitement but which means 2 things to a dabbler like myself: you really have to stay on top of it, and it's not well documented yet. There is however a large and enthusiastic user base and support seems pretty good among the large ISPs. There are lots of shortcuts and shorthands, lots of methods that invisibly become enabled if you simply include "acts_as_tree" in a model definition for example. There are loads of tutorials that show how fast and simple it is to make a to-do list, but as soon as you want to do something more interesting than a to-do list the water gets deep fast. I haven't given up on it, but as I said I did have to give myself some distance for a while because I was getting frustrated at spending time and brain cells and having nothing to show for it. I wish you luck!
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