"The Rails Way is a long awaited book billing itself as the 'expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications.' More precisely, the book dives into nearly every area of the Rails libraries and APIs and acts as a reference work for them."

A very thorough review of the book, "The Rails Way" by Obie Fernandez.

The argument that “everything should be a design pattern” is an argument that fits the theoretician, not the pragmatist. It is motivated by a desire for building very complicated things out of very simple parts. That is possible. But it is a fallacy to believe that simplifying the constituent parts simplifies the software.