Creating a Demo Website

Hello World!
This blog will chronicle my experiences playing with the much hyped Rails framework. I am in the process of learning Ruby and Rails and building a dummy demo. The demo I am building is a hodge podge of various website patterns, like User registration and login, creating sessions using cookies and MYSQL, Pagination etc. As I develop these, I will get more comfortable with Rails and Ruby.
I am using Agile Web Development with Rails as well as the Programming Ruby - the Pickaxe book for reference. Great deal on pdfs at http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/with free upgrades for life. So here goes...

Update:
I am now using Radrails for IDE (very cool) and Subversion (see here for how to install subversion for windows) for revision management.