While watching Ryan Bates’ railscasts, i learned to love the syntax highlighting of textmate (which seems to be the best IDE for developing rails apps). Though buying a mac is no solution for me 
i found a nice theme for Aptanas RadRails (my favourite IDE) which does some really cool syntax highlighting in textmate-style.
You can download it from here.
Btw: If you were expecting me to post more often, i apologize that i haven’t had much time in the last weeks. But i just finished my project for this semester last week and i have to take some exams in the next weeks. You’ll hear from me soon 
Ruby on Rails
aptana, ide, rails, textmate
I just got this message with Rails 2.2.2 and a MySQL 5.0.x DB on Windows Vista as i tried to rake db:create
The specified module could not be found. - c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32/ext/mysql.so
After penetrating google for some time i found a solution that was working for me. All you have to do is to copy your libmySQL.dll from your MySQL bin directory to your ruby bin directory.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails
mysql, rails
One of the best parts of learning Ruby/RoR is getting in touch with it. If you see it in action you instantly want to learn it and you can!
The best ways to learn Ruby:
The best ways to learn Ruby on Rails:
The best books:
It is important to read the newest books because rails is developing fast and so the ways how something is done change often – and are getting easier as well
english:
german:
german openbooks:
Beware of old guides, links and tutorials, maybe things are done otherwise today than they’ve been some time ago!
HowTos:
Want to contribute an important link? I’d love to see your comment!
Ruby, Ruby on Rails
getting started, links, Ruby, Ruby on Rails