What's the best way to learn Ruby and RoR?

[Source]

Hi -

I'm in the process of learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails (RoR) and I was curious if my approach is the most prudent.

1. Read "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers Guide" by Dave Thomas. Create sample applications as I learn.
2. Create a small scale Ruby project.
3. Read "Agile Web Development with Rails" By Dave Thomas et al. Create sample applications as I learn.
4. Revise my small scale Ruby project to use RoR.

Is there anything else that I could read to jumpstart my learning?

Thanks.

 

[Noobie]

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

 

[Source]

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Thanks, that was helpful and it lead me to this:

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/index.html

A free and EXCELLENT Ruby book. Plus it's VERY entertaining.

 

[Noobie]

That site has some awesome links / basics
If i wasn't so used to php and I didn't have a 'library' of scripts that i just copy and paste every time ... I would jump on that language so fast.