Getting started with rails? Must have gems?

Question

I\'m starting work on a project using Rails, but I\'m waiting for the 3rd edition of the pragmatic rails book to come out before I purchase a book.

Anyway, my questi

Answer 1

Might want to keep an eye on: http://rubygems.org/ - you can see some interesting stats there re: most downloaded, most active, etc...

Also interesting and somewhat telling: https://github.com/languages/Ruby