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This article shows how to build a Ruby on Rails application that dynamically recognizes iPhone or iPod touch browsers, while allowing Mobile Safari users the option of seeing the full Web content. It also focuses on the server-side structures needed to support serving separate content to iPhone users and how to start to serve iPhone content.

A general tutorial about programming best practices that isn't specific to Rails, but certainly is something all Rails programmers should read.

2nd in the Rails 101 series. This screencast deals with explaining the hierarchy of files created by Rails, as it can be daunting to begin with.

This tutorial gives you complete understanding on how to upload files using Rails

As a newbie, getting started with Rails was tricky without some help from the IRC folks. If you get stuck, that's a good place for help, as the author hangs out in there pretty regularly. That said, some sample code is worth its weight in gold, so here's how I got a basic Rails application running.