Books needed to get you started

Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers by David Black is the best beginner book for learning ruby. This book gives you very good base on Ruby. I tried reading Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide as 1st book but it didn't go that well. After reading Ruby for Rails, I read Agile Web Development with Rails, 3rd Edition. This will get you started with Ruby and Rails. The Ruby Way and The Rails Way are good reference books .