Many different people helped make this book possible. Thanks to my agent Neil Salkind for getting this
project off the ground, and to Jenny Watson and Maryann Steinhart at Wiley for helping turn it from a
proposal into a book. Thanks to the technical editor, Raymond Budd, for his attention to detail in
verifying the source code for this book, and the copyeditor, Kathryn Duggan, for her attention to matters
of style and clarity.
Without the Rails community as a whole, this book would have been a lot less interesting and more
difficult. Thanks to David Heinemeier Hansson for creating Rails in the first place, and the entire core
team for the ongoing implementation. Also thanks to people like Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler for
their part in popularizing Rails. The Rails community is enlivened by a fantastic ongoing conversation of
ideas, tutorials, and arguments online. I !ˉ ve tried to acknowledge individual developers and bloggers in
each chapter, and there are too many to list here, but thanks to you all.
At Motorola, a number of managers and co – workers were supportive of my initial attempts to build Rails
projects as well as the beginnings of this book. Special thanks to Greg Bell, Anne – Marie Jolie, MaryAnn
Marks, Jay Marusich, Staszek Salik, Mike Wagner, and Michal Wieja.
Pathfinder has been amazingly supportive of this book, both in concept and in the amount of time spent.
Thanks to Dietrich Kappe and Bernhard Kappe for the opportunity. Anthony Caliendo, Michael King,
Jason Sendlebach, Alice Toth, and Lydia Tripp are all team members who have been supportive of me
and this book. Thanks to all of you.
I !ˉ d like to acknowledge and thank Wally Dodge, who was my AP Computer Science instructor, and is as
responsible as anybody for my choice of career.
I !ˉ m lucky to be part of an amazing and loving family, both immediate and extended. At the risk of
angering everybody else, I !ˉ d like to especially acknowledge my godparents, Nancy and Richard Sher,
and my cousin Dan Sher.
My parents, Donna and Donnie Rappin, have always enthusiastically supported me, no matter where
I chose to go.
My wife, Erin, still and always the best part of my life, made it through this project with grace and
humor. Thank you for everything.
My children, Emma and Elliot, are now old enough to read this for themselves. Hi! You are wonderful
and amazing kids, and I love you both.

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