I just received my copy of the Rails Cookbook. The author chose to pull the book and revise it, against the wishes of O'Reilly, and was rewarded for his hard work with a release date that coincided perfectly with the release of Rails 1.2. Not an easy task for a fast-changing technology like Rails!

I think the Rails Cookbook should be in every Rails developer's library. If you are trying to solve a problem with Rails, there is probably a starting point somewhere in this book.

Here's a list of the Ruby / Rails books I have on my desk. I have the PDF version for most of these books as well, which is great for when I need to look up something when I am away from my desk.

-Agile Web Development with Rails - the Rails Bible

-Programming Ruby - the "Pickaxe"

-Ruby for Rails - the most helpful book when learning Rails aside from AWDwR

-Ruby Cookbook - a great companion to the Pickaxe

-Rails Cookbook - as mentioned above

-Rails Recipes - another great resource