Something I'm trying out. In the mean time, here are some links that seem worthwhile:
Rolling with Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html part 1] and [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/03/rails.html part 2] Simple CRUD example
[http://www.swik.net/project/rails about Rails] on Swik.
[http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2005/9/27/getting-started-with-activerecord-migrations Getting started with Migrations]
Of course, this makes me want to learn more about the Ruby language:
[http://www.mattriffle.com/mirrors/ruby_book/html/index.html Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide] by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt or [http://www.mattriffle.com/mirrors/ruby_book/ in frames]
[http://www.spricom.com/rjava/ RJava] is a means to call Java from Ruby. It's fairly primitive at the moment and uses TCP/IP for the call.
[http://jruby.sourceforge.net/ JRuby] is an implementation of Ruby written in Java.
[http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/python-e.html Ruby/Python] allows calling Python code within Ruby.
Then there's available code
Current version of [http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/ Ruby User's Guide]
[http://onestepback.org/articles/10things/item10.html Ruby Conventions] and [http://onestepback.org/articles/10things/somemorethingsyoushouldknow.html more]
More Ruby conventions [http://fhwang.net/blog/40.html for Java programmers]
[http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/#item10157 Rails ActiveRecord vs Nitro ObjectGraph]