About the Author

Barrett Clark has nearly 20 years of experience in software development. He started writing Perl, PHP, and TCL while working at AOL. One day a friend and coworker showed him Ruby, and it changed everything. Ten years later he’s still writing (and loving) Ruby.

Barrett learned PostGIS while working at Geoforce, a company that does asset tracking. He currently works at Sabre Labs where he is trying to make meaningful change in the travel industry.

Barrett loves the Ruby community and works to give back to it. He is a conference speaker, mentor, and book club participant.

When Barrett is not writing code or reading about writing code he likes to run and cook. He lives in North Texas with his wife, two teenage boys, and yellow lab. ...

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