Ruby and Rails Magazines available to Buy or download
The thriving Ruby and Rails communities have produced a couple of magazines that you can buy (to show your support) or download PDF versions absolutely free.

Rails Magazine – Issue 1 (1st March 2009)
The Beginning; 36 pages of Rails goodness.
- Receiving E-Mail With Rails by Jason Seifer
- Delegation in Ruby by Khaled al Habache
- Subscription billing with Saasy by Alex MacCaw
- Making the Switch From RSpec to Shoulda by Dan Pickett
- Playing Hooky a.k.a. web hooks by John Nunemaker
- Adhearsion by Jason Goecke & Jay Phillips
- Rails Performance Analysis by Terry Heath
- Getting Started with JRuby and JRuby on Rails by Joshua Moore
- Extending Rails Through Plugins by John Yerhot

The Rubyist – Issue 1 (August 2008)
Hampton Catlin, Rein Henrichs, and friends in the first issue of the Rubyist. INSIDE: An interview with Rein Henrichs on Ruby best practices, an interview with Hampton Catlin about Jabl, columns from Giles Bowkett and Rein Henrichs, a Ruby quiz-esque challenge (you can win an iPhone! Yes, you!), building DataMapper adapters, Ben Scofield shares some techniques for auditing your code, using RubyOSA with Evan Light, Yehuda Katz waxes rhapsodic on performance measures in Merb, and learning about building gems with BDD from Jamie van Dyke!

The Rubyist – Issue 2 (February 2009)
- Regional conferences with Pat Eyler
- Talking about the Rails merge with Zach Inglis, and interviews with DHH, Ted Han, and more
- Scott Chacon drops some Git knowledge
- Yehuda Katz discusses his journey from Rails to Merb to Rails
- Martin Rehfeld shares his solution from last issue’s homework
- Obie Fernandez talks about client managment
- Aaron Quint spends some time with Sinatra
- Evan David Light talks BDD
- Ben Scofield talks about testing iPhone applications using Ruby
- Eric Hodel talks about the next generation of RubyGems
- Dennis Theisen teaches how to use ActiveMerchant
- Carlo Pecchia shows off JRuby
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