Jeremy Evans - Polished Ruby Programming: Build better software with more intuitive, maintainable, scalable, and high-performance Ruby code

Build better software with more intuitive, maintainable, scalable, and high-performance Ruby code

Jeremy Evans

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To Allyson, Jaden, Ruby, Jennifer, and Veronica, who most shaped my life.

- Jeremy Evans

About the author

Jeremy Evans is a Ruby committer who focuses on fixing bugs in Ruby, as well as improving the implementation of Ruby. He is the maintainer of many popular Ruby libraries, including the fastest web framework (Roda) and fastest database library (Sequel). His libraries are known not just for their performance, but also for their code quality, understandability, documentation, and how quickly any bugs found are fixed. For his contributions to Ruby and the Ruby community, he has received multiple awards, such as receiving the prestigious RubyPrize in 2020 and being chosen as a Ruby Hero in 2015. He has given presentations at over 20 Ruby conferences. In addition to working on Ruby, he is also a committer for the OpenBSD operating system.

I would like to thank the editors, technical reviewers, and other Packt staff for their help in creating this book. I would especially like to thank Janko Marohni for his reviews and recommendations, which resulted in so many improvements to this book.

Jagdish Narayandasani has more than 14 years of experience in software development and almost a decade of experience in working on Ruby on Rails. He is currently working as a Technology Specialist with a New York-based Fintech firm. He often contributes as a echnical reviewer for technical books. He has worked on a variety of technologies, such as Java, Ruby, Elixir, and the AWS cloud for different companies. He has worked in various industries, such as finance, retail, healthcare, and wealth management. At the moment, he is trying his hand at blockchain technology. In his free time, he loves to spend time with his family, explore new places, and try new food.

Janko Marohni is a seasoned Ruby developer with big love for open source. He has authored many Ruby libraries, spoken at conferences, and writes on his blog about his discoveries in the Ruby ecosystem (most of them are libraries created or maintained by the author of this book). He values well-tested code, separation of responsibilities, and doing more with less. Outside of programming, Janko enjoys dancing, acrobatic activities, and playing the piano.