Handy resources for people new to Rails

I have a couple of updates planned for this week, stay tuned! In the mean time, I've been speaking to a bunch of people fairly new to rails, so I thought I'd point out a couple of great places to visit if you are new to rails and are looking for some good places to start. (There are, of course, plenty more, but you have to draw the line somewhere) :-

Great Pod/Screencasts

1. Railscasts. Ryan Bates gives realy excellent screencasts covering many rails topics. These really are very good :) Eifion Bedford has converted many of these into a text version.
2. Rails Envy. A useful round-up of weekly ruby and rails news, and you can find lots of good links in the show notes.
3. Ruby on Rails Podcast. Great interviews and chats with ruby luminaries and entrepreneurs.
4. Rubyology. Code Monkey, Chris Matthieu has been hosting this podcast for a long while now, and there have recently been some great round table discussions worth listening to too.

Handy Information Resources

1. RailsGuides - great resource for learning rails.
2. Stack Overflow - helpful programming Q&A community site.
3. Rails Tips, "One man, feverishly posting everything he learns."
4. Ruby Inside and Rails Inside - all the ruby and rails news that's fit to print.

Community Links

1. If you live or work around London, the London Ruby User Group has regular evening events and lots of interesting chat. Further afield in the UK is the North West RUG and the Scottish RUG. [Update: And Leeds Ruby Thing!] Further still, try looking on the meetup site.
2. Rails Activists - The 'official' group, working to empower rails users, and working on projects to improve the rails platform.
3. Railsbridge Another community of rails developers hoping to strengthen and broaden the rails community through various projects and activities. 
4. I started compiling a list of other regional conferences that people may be interested in, but soon found a great list.
5. Rails on IRC
6. The Ruby Forum also containing several others), and the Rails Forum are both good places to chat & ask questions.

There has been a lot of debate over the past few weeks about the Rails community, how to make it more inclusive and welcoming, and how people can help out.
Railsbridge just got going a few days ago but is a great example of how many people there are within the rails community with a great enthusiasm to help. Already in the works are mentoring programs, kids educational activities, courseware and workshops.

I'm hoping to find out more about these sorts of efforts, and include activities during the conference that will help people find ways to get involved. If you have any suggestions, please .
Any glaring omissions? Leave a comment! [Update: