Foreword

Oh, hi! I didn’t see you come in. I don’t want to be too forward, but let me preface this by saying you should buy this book!

My name is Aaron Patterson, but my Internet friends call me “tenderlove.” I am on both the Ruby core team and the Ruby on Rails core team, and I did the technical review of this book. Does that mean you should listen to me? No. Well, maybe.

Actually, when Pat approached me to do the technical review of this book, I was so excited that my top hat fell off and I dropped my monocle in my coffee! I knew about Pat’s previous work on Ruby Under a Microscope, and the idea of making an updated and print version available made me really happy. I think many developers are intimidated by Ruby’s internals and are afraid to dive ...

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