Rappin - Rails 5 Test Prescriptions

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Its been nine years since I first started working on a book called Rails Test Prescriptions. In that time, many people have helped me make this book better than I could have made it on my own. This includes but is by no means limited to the following people.

Without the encouragement of Brian Hogan and Gregg Pollack, this might still be a self-published book.

Katharine Dvorak has been my editor on this version of the project and has shaped the material this time around. Ive worked with Susannah Pfalzer on all my Pragmatic projects, and shes always been helpful and great to work with.

Many technical people reviewed this version of the book and had their commentsincorporated. They include Sean Boyle, Mike Coutermarsh, Ashish Dixit, M. Scott Ford, Derek Graham, Luis Cabezas Granado, Josh Justice, Kaan Karaca, Nigel Lowry, Sean Miller, Maricris Nonato, Tara Scherner de la Fuente, and Charley Stran.

Ive been very fortunate to be working at Table XI while writing this book. Not only have they been very supportive of the project, but Ive also had the chance to get insights and corrections from my very skilled coworkers.

This book is a commercial product built on the time and generosity of developers who create amazing tools and release them to the world for free. Thanks to all of you. In particular, the maintainers of several of the tools discussed were generous in answering my questions, particularly Eileen Uchitelle from the Rails core team, and Sam Phippen from the RSpec core team.

My family has always been encouraging. Thanks to my children, Emma and Elliot, who are more amazing and awesome than I ever could have hoped. And thanks to my wife Erin, the best part of my life and my favorite person. I love you very much.