Ruby on Rails misc resources

What is Ruby on Rails? http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6251
RubyOnRails Wiki http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails
Installing Ruby, Gems, and Rails http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/GettingStartedWithRails
Instant Rails http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/
Locomotive for Mac OS X http://locomotive.sourceforge.net/
Getting started with the Ruby programming language. http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000199.html
Ryby Docs http://www.ruby-doc.org/
ONLamp – Rolling with RoR [...]

Ruby on Rails Optimizing Performance

Ruby on Rails is very fun, i love it, but Ruby sometimes can be slow.. So here there are some hints to speed up your Ruby on Rails web application.
Rails Performance Tips

Common Performance Problems in Rails – Pros and con between SQLSessionStore and MemChacheStore session containers, tips on optimizing queries, and general information regarding how [...]

Ruby learning resources

Here is a list of resorces to star learning Ruby. How to, getting start guide and manuals.
Links:

Try Ruby!
Learn to Program
Ruby in Twenty Minutes
Ruby from Other Languages
Learning Ruby
The Ruby Garden Ruby FAQ
Things Any Newcomer Should Know
Ruby & Ruby on Rails programming tutorials
Programming Ruby
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
Ruby User’s Guide
The Ruby Programming Wikibook
Ruby Core Reference
Ruby Standard Library [...]

FeedTools: Parsing feeds in Rails

How to parse RSS and ATOM feeds in Ruby in agile way?FeedTools is a simple Ruby library for handling rss, atom, and cdf parsing, generation, and translation as well as caching. It attempts to adhere to Postel’s law: i.e. a liberal parsing and conservative generation policy. It’s ideal for parsing RSS feeds in Ruby on [...]

Rails vs Django

Ruby on Rails and Django are two popular framework in web development.
Here you can found some comparison so you make your choice. I use RoR because is very fun.
Links:

Framework Performance
The Rails vs Django Paper
Catalyst vs Rails vs Django Cook off
Rails vs Django
Rails vs. Django: A Comparative Programming Exercise
A comparison of Django with Rails
A [...]