About the Author

Michael Hartl is the author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, one of the leading introductions to web development, and is a founder of the educational website Learn Enough to Be Dangerous (learnenough.com). His prior experience includes writing and developing RailsSpace, an extremely obsolete Rails tutorial book, and developing Insoshi, a once-popular and now-obsolete social networking platform in Ruby on Rails. In 2011, Michael received a Ruby Hero Award for his contributions to the Ruby community. He is a graduate of Harvard College, has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Y Combinator entrepreneur program.

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