The download link can be found here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/sitepoint-books/ror.pdf

So far, (I’m 63 pages into it), this seems like a really good beginners’ book: it not only talks about Ruby and Rails, but also goes into detail like what is the difference between compiled and interpreted languages, what an object-oriented language is, etc.

Andrew,

You may also visit Satish’s rubylearning.com for free online course on ruby. He also points you to other learning materials that will surely help any newbie rubyist.

Best.
alain