Acknowledgments

The Rails™ 4 Way was very much a team effort. On behalf of myself and Kevin, I would like to thank Vitaly Kushner and Ari Lerner for their contributions and support throughout the life of the project. We’d also like to thank Mike Perham, Juanito Fatas, Phillip Campbell, Brian Cardarella, Carlos Souza, and Michael Mazyar for technical review and edits. I must thank my understanding business partner Trevor Owens and staff at Lean Startup Machine for their ongoing support. Of course, Kevin and I also thank our families for their patience as writing tasks quite often ate into our personal time with them.

As always, I’d also like to express a huge debt of gratitude to our executive editor at Pearson: Debra Williams Cauley. Without her constant support and encouragement throughout the years, the Professional Ruby Series would not exist.

—Obie Fernandez
December 2013