Links, links, links;

CSS Play
Onotology + Wikipedia = fun
Proxy access with Apache
mod_proxy
gravity waves
web design. simple == good
Blogging Rails
Understanding XForms - Finally, HTML forms done right.
acts_as_rateable - I wrote my own rating engine, will have to check this out and see if I should refactor it to use this instead. Mine has really cute stars.
Hosting Rails apps with Mongrel and Debian
A grown up Rails server with Mongrel - Essential reading. I'm using FCGI right now with Apache, and it really sucks. Mongrel sounds very neat, especially for a very small memory footprint virtual dedicated server, like I get from the most excellent quantact.com
Mongrel - A very fast and excellent Rails webserver written by Zed Shaw.
Mongrel HOWTO