Footnotes

Chapter 1

1 http://railstutorial.org

2 http://gembundler.com

3 http://yehudakatz.com/2010/04/21/named-gem-environments-and-bundler/

4 http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/16

5 RVM by Wayne Seguin allows you to easily install, manage and work with multiple Ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems and it’s a must-have tool for modern Rails developers. http://rvm.beginrescueend.com

6 Comically, the Rails inflection of virus is also wrong. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us#Virus

7 http://blog.headius.com/2008/08/qa-what-thread-safe-rails-means.html

8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads

9 Yehuda’s take on the subject is essential reading http://yehudakatz.com/2010/08/14/threads-in-ruby-enough-already ...

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