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PREFACE
cover. It also takes a very long time to write a book. This book has been my life for the
past year and a bit. I’ve spent many weekends, mornings before work, and evenings
after work (and way too often, time even in my dreams) writing chapters for this book.
I’ve talked about it (perhaps too much) as well. It’s become such a running joke
among people I know that when I’m introduced, they ask, “Do you know he’s writing a
book?”
Writing is sometimes easy, but other times it can be a struggle to come up with anything
at all. There have been bad days, sure, but the good days outnumber those massively.
The feeling of achievement you get when you finish a chapter, or even a section,
is awesome. Receiving positive feedback from people has been a huge boon to completing
this book.
Now, in 2011, the book is finally done, and what an amazing feeling that is! I’d like
to think that it offers a unique perspective on developing a full Ruby on Rails application
from scratch in the same (or at least, similar) manner that people are developing
Rails applications at this time. It’s also the first book to cover the latest features of
Rails found in version 3.1.
RYAN BIGG