restful rails is a bit of overdose for beginners, I suggest use rails 1.1.6 to get started. agile web development with rails will give you the initial successes. then for spicing use rails recipe, advanced rails recipe, rails cookbook
for implementing full projects in rails 2.0
practical rails projects
for ruby, beginning ruby, ruby cookbook, The Ruby Programming Language
for implementing full projects in rails 2.0 practical rails projects
for ruby, beginning ruby, ruby cookbook, The Ruby Programming Language