Anyone know a good Rails book?

Ruby on Rails?

This is the best you will probably get.

I hate Ruby on Rails. I love Ruby. But I hate Rails. If this is for a job get the book I suggested. If you just want to learn a MVC framework look elsewhere. Django or CakePHP are good starts.

That aforementioned book be th’ defacto standard for yer question.

Did you mean this?

there has to be reason for hating ROR…. I never tried django but had some taste of CakePHP and feel that ROR is superior than CakePHP

Let me start by saying that I love Ruby. I love Gems. I just find shat RoR scales poorly. Even a simple app on my local machine feels slow. Look at Twitter a RoR app. And Digg is PHP. I would like and use and love Rails if it scaled and even was somewhat snappy on small sites.