best ruby book (web orientated)

hi

Currently at work I use java/struts but its been decided to have a look at ruby on rails , with a view to doing a small web based project in it.

can anyone recommend a good book to learn from? i need a book that will be web orientated , as thats the dev domain it will be used for.

I would recommend these two books if you want to learn rails:

Agile web development with rails - Dave Thimas and David Hansson
Ruby for Rails - David Black

+1 for the pragmatic title. I've also heard a lot of good things said about Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce.

The reason I like the David Black book is that it gives you a better understanding of the Ruby language itself and how it provides a lot of the magic behind rails. You can use rails without knowing too much Ruby, as Rails is almost like a DSL itself, but to be really proficient, you will need to gain a deeper understanding of Ruby the language.

thanks for the input guys.

i think im gonna get the agile one and the david black one. work is paying after all

To learn Ruby I'm using Learning Ruby by Michael Fitzgerald. It's very new and fairly short (238 pages).
[ June 20, 2007: Message edited by: Alex Lewis ]