1. Seattle.rb
Seattle's monthly and weekly meetup of the Rails community. This is a great way to get to know the local community and to see some excellent presentaions on software development both novice and advanced.
Work through this tutorial, it has concrete examples and will give you all the fundamental tools you need to build and deploy apps with ruby.
2. Ruby Koans
This is a great set of puzzles for learning the ins and outs of programming with ruby.
3. Railscasts
Excellent screencasts for working with Rails libraries and implementing any given feature you might want to incorporate into an app, from authorization to code syntax highlighting.
It is worthwhile to do the other courses too, but these are great, and will help you to learn to build rails apps in a very guided and highly interactive manner.
1. Rails Guides
This is a great resource for getting to know the ins and outs of rails. It has some great examples of the variety of ways common methods can be used.
2. APIdock
A brilliant documentation engine for rails, quickly find and inspect core rails classes and methods. This site is great because it has comments about the methods and their edge cases and interesting ways they can be used. Even better it is super easy to navigate.
3. Ruby Doc
Ruby documentation, other than APIdock this is the best resource for finding ruby methods.
Deep knowledge of software composition and testing patterns, may possibly blow your mind.
This is the first ruby book to really hold my attention.
Fantastic book, great for getting a hold on building clear, maintainable Ruby.
4. Vimcasts
Learn Vim! You know you want to.
5. Rubytapas
Some really nice, short screencasts on ruby ins and outs.