Gettting Started with Rails
Tutorial Book
CloudEdit: A Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails
Backbone.js really introduces a new kind of data flow for Rails apps. Instead of data flowing like this:Rails Model => Rails Controller => Rails View
It now flows like this:
Rails Model => Rails Controller => Backbone Model => Backbone Controller => Backbone View
What I've found is that overall, Backbone.js makes it really simple to create highly responsive Javascript heavy applications.