Foreword
I pitched Addison-Wesley on the idea of a Professional Ruby Series way back in 2005. As research for this foreword, I dug up the original proposal and looked at the list of titles that I envisioned would make up the series in the future. Wow, what an exercise. Out of a dozen, only one of those original ideas became reality, the fantastic Design Patterns in Ruby book by my old friend Russ Olsen. Literally none of the others have seen the light of day, including Extending Rails into the Enterprise, Behavior Driven Development in Ruby, Software Testing with Ruby, and AJAX on Rails.
Okay, I admit that some of those ideas kind of sucked. However, one of them definitely did not suck and I’ve been holding out for it since the beginning: Processing ...
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