Can you recommend some good RoR books?

I'm running through this myself. Up to Chapter 11 so far, but it is a great book to both learn on and reference.

+1 for this book, although you either need to use Rails 2.2.2 or find the great site I found where a guy created a pdf with all the screenshots of working through the depot program with Rails 2.3.2.

+1 for this book, although you either need to use Rails 2.2.2 or find the great site I found where a guy created a pdf with all the screenshots of working through the depot program with Rails 2.3.2.

AWD (to start)

there's also the standard Agile Web Development with Rails (3rd Edition)

Agile Web Development with Rails was one of the better books that were around when I first started learning Ruby/Rails.

For my 2 cents, I'd second both of Peter's suggestions - Foundation Rails 2 and Simply Rails 2 - though I do tend to like the former a little more.

I have nothing but good things to about Foundation Rails 2 by Eldon Alameda.

My recommendation for people who are new to both Ruby and Rails is Foundation Rails 2 by Eldon Alameda

For my 2 cents, I'd second both of Peter's suggestions - Foundation Rails 2 and Simply Rails 2 - though I do tend to like the former a little more. The latter is better if you have absolutely no prior web dev or programming experience.

I recommend sitepoint Patrick Lenz - Simply Rails, although it is outdated (rails 2.0.2) but it have a solid simply background on rails knowledge.

Rails Way (for the details)

The Rails Way is pretty good.

I'll second the votes for The Rails Way, it really is good.

The Rails Way kicks ass once you already know Rails to a certain extent - it's definitely not a first book.

Advanced rails (Oreilly, Ediger);

you should be fine with: * Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition

"Ajax on Rails," while focussed on Ajax, has a lot of really good general information on Rails too, and is extremely well written. It's somewhat outdated now (really all Rails books are) but still very much worth reading IMHO.

Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications. An excellent hobbyist book. I suspect pro developers might find some issues with it though

And I found Design Patterns in Ruby pretty good for Ruby beginners

I like "Enterprise Rails". It's a rather contrarian Rails book in that it doesn't hew to the Rails anti-DB orthodoxy. It's clearly written and has a good example that evolves over the course of the book. It's meant to be a 2nd Rails book, after you're familiar with the framework.