Coming from a web development background with experience using MVC in Java and Python, I found Michael's Rails Tutorial was basically all I needed to get starte

Coming from a web development background with experience using MVC in Java and Python, I found Michael's Rails Tutorial was basically all I needed to get started, even though I only came to Rails around the time of 3.0. I'm personally really happy to have skipped over ERB entirely and gone straight to HAML. But if I were teaching a web dev newbie, I might use ERB, since it still looks like HTML. Better to keep a few things familiar while someone is learning. Perhaps Michael's book fills this space, but there may be an opportunity to write an e-book on the Prime Stack, or at least fill in some things the Rails Tutorial leaves out.