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u/LegionSB · 2 pointsr/rails

The best thing for you are old books from that time. And they're cheap.

You're just looking for books that are in the Rails 2.x range, as it'll be hard to be specific to 2.1, but Rails release notes will help you bridge the gap between specific point releases.

The third edition of Agile Web Development With Rails and the first edition of The Rails Way are both Rails 2.x books.

Here's also an old online Rails 2.1 tutorial to help you in the meantime, but don't try to just get by on the few old web tutorials that are still online. Order books today. They're much deeper and broader than a web tutorial and they'll be invaluable if you're going to be working on this project for any real period of time.

EDIT: Michael Hartl's fantastic railstutorial.org has the "pre-1st edition" version of his book, which covers Rails 2.3, still available for free PDF download. Definitely grab that.

u/tmorton · 1 pointr/programming

The latest stable branch is the 2.3, but Rails 3 is just around the corner. As far as I know, there aren't any books out that cover Rails 3, but there are several that cover Rails 2.

To go from zero-to-productive in Rails, the best book is probably Agile Web Development with Rails. For a deeper dive into the framework, The Rails Way is excellent.