The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments for the Second Edition

Common sense says that a second edition will only require half as much work as the first edition required. Common sense is wrong.

Even though a large part of this book came directly from the first edition, even that part had to be tweaked and tuned. Every single sentence in this book had to pass through (at the very least) a filter that asked: Is what was true in 2001 still true in 2006? And that, of course, was only the beginning.

In short, I put in many hundreds of hours of work on this second edition—nearly as much time as on the first. And yet I am “only the author.”

A book is possible only through the teamwork of many people. On the publisher’s side, I owe thanks to Debra Williams Cauley, ...