Acknowledgments

This book has been a long time coming, so I would like to say thanks to you, the reader, for waiting as long as you have for this revised edition.

I’d like to thank Steve Klabnik for taking over as an author after I left the project. He got the book a long way toward being compatible with Rails 4, and without his efforts this would have taken even longer to do. Thanks to my other coauthor, Rebecca Skinner, for joining the project and helping tremendously with updating the book. Rebecca rewrote at least three chapters and has pored over the others for many hours to make this book as good as it can be.

Along with Rebecca, special mention goes to Justin Lane and Ivan Polchenko, who put in an excellent effort on reviewing this book. They showed great dedication by providing feedback nearly every day on IRC or by email.

We’d also like to thank the other reviewers who volunteered to help out with the book: Andrew Grimm, Andrew Hoffman, Andy Henson, Ben Woodall, Bredan Murtagh, Cory Simmons, Dana Jones, D. Deryl Downey, Eduardo Bautista, Jimmy Beaudoin, Harry Moreno, Paulo Toro, Sushruth Sivaramakrishnan, Johnneylee Jack Rollins, Tamara Temple, David Workman, and Yaw Boakye. These reviewers span the globe: America, Australia, India, the UK, and Ghana. To be able to collaborate with such a diverse group of people is fantastic.