Rails: Up and Running, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

Writing a book is a demanding exercise, taking passion, commitment, and persistence. The authors on the cover get all of the glory (and possibly the blame). Many people contribute to a book. We’d like to mention the people who made writing this book such a fulfilling experience.

Collectively, Bruce, Lance, and Curt would like to thank the outstanding team of reviewers who provided so many great comments, including David Mabelle, Mauro Cicio, Brooke Hedrick, Faisal Jawdat, Shane Claussen, Leo de Blaauw, Anne Bowman, Seth Havermann, Dave Hastings, and Randy Hanford. We’d also like to thank David Geary for fleshing out some of the early ideas in Photo Share.

Rails: Up and Running, Second Edition, would be nothing without the excellent contributions of the core Rails team. We would like to thank David Heinemeier Hansson (the creator of Rails), Florian Weber, Jamis Buck, Jeremy Kemper, Leon Breedt, Marcel Molina Jr., Michael Koziarski, Nicholas Seckar, Sam Stephenson, Scott Barron, Thomas Fuchs, and Tobias Luetke. Ruby is a fantastic language, and we would like to thank the many who made it so. We throw out specific thanks to Yukihiro Matsumoto (a.k.a. “Matz”), the creator of Ruby, and to Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, without whom Ruby might have remained virtually unknown outside of Japan.

Bruce would like to specifically thank Curt for stepping into this project after it seemed that it was dead. Also, thanks to those at AutoGas who were so instrumental in trying this technology ...