Rails™ AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails™ Refactoring

Acknowledgments

As any published author will tell you, writing a book is a difficult task. It’s also one that cannot be done in isolation. Two people deserve the majority of our gratitude. Obie Fernandez was with us when the idea for this book formed, and he believed in us enough to help us get it published. After that, it was up to Debra Williams Cauley, an incredible editor, and now an incredible friend, to whip us into shape whenever progress slowed. This book never would have been published without their help.

There were many other people who also had a hand in getting this book to our readers. Both Pat Allan and Joe Ferris worked hard to contribute solutions involving Thinking Sphinx and unit-testing techniques, respectively. Michael Thurston ...