I just picked up the Beta PDF of "Agile Development with Rails 2" at pragmatic programmers.

This book is awesome, the one thing - like was mentioned earlier - these are introduction books to Rails - not to Ruby.

From what I hear the best Intro-to-Ruby book is "the pickaxe one". I forget the actual name.

As for me, I'm a beginner programmer. I've known Html forever but that provides little in the way of real experience with programming. I'm really looking forward to getting my feet wet with such a fast paced and agile language/framework that you've got in RoR.