Hehe, yep.  There are lots of screencasts and presentations out there you can watch.  Here are few more to wet your appetite:

2006 RailsConf: www.scribemedia.org

2006 RailsConf Europe: skillsmatter.com/.../368

Google Videos: video.google.com/videosearch

Skills Matter / RoR eXchange: skillsmatter.com/.../479

RailsCasts: http://railscasts.com/

PeepCode ($$) : http://peepcode.com/

There are many more, but those should get you started...  :)

I knew once you saw the light you wouldn't be able to resist! lol

Great isn't it?

Now, my only gripe with all of RoR is the whole production headaches. Perhaps someone can shed some light in this area of deploying a RoR app to a production server.

There are alot of different options and it's hard to tell which is the best route. Alot of people have capistrano scripts deploying to Apache with a Mongrel cluster and a load balancer but I had a real hard time getting it to work correctly. Comments anyone?

@Sean,

Well since I'm only going on my 2nd real coding week with learning RoR, I can't be of much help.  But from what I've seen I am going to have to beef up my *nix skills quite a bit.  But sounds like you and Jason are pretty comfortable in a *nix environment, so shouldn't be as much of a problem for you guys.

About Capistrano, everything I hear about it, folks say it is simply amazing and is something every RoR developer should be using.  Hopefully I'll get to that point soon...  :D

@Jason,

Capistrano is pretty much the de-facto deployment tool in Rails-land right now, from what I can see.  So I'd probably take a serious look at that before creating an alternative.  Just my 0.02...

Jason,

sounds like a plan! Let me know if you setup a vm or anything to play with it.

It would be neat if we could swap virtual machine disks if one of us sets up a Linux deployment server. Granted we would all have to be using VirtualBox or VMWare, but it would be cool to all be working with the same configuration.

Lets create a that site that Joey and I were talking about for displaced softies that need $$$ for MacBook Pro's!  If someone can raise money for their college tuition why can't we raise a little for us poor developers.  ;-)