Ruby in a Nutshell

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank the editors who made the impossible possible: Yumi Hayatsu for the original Japanese version and Laura Lewin for this English version. Without their efforts, you wouldn’t be reading this book. The time I worked with Laura was fun and busy; she succeeded in driving the lazy programmer to do the work of a technical writer.

Thanks to David L. Reynolds, Jr., the translator of O’Reilly Japan’s Ruby Pocket Reference (from which this book was derived). He not only decrypted the mysterious Oriental language but also fixed bugs in the book and polished up descriptions. I would also like to thank the technical reviewers, Colin Steele and Todd Faulkner; they helped take a pocket reference and expand it to the full-sized book you are reading.

Finally, thanks to my family, who endured their husband/father spending too many hours before the computer.

-- A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.

Proverbs 31:10