Hafiz Barie Lubis - Learning Devise for Rails

Hafiz majored in Informatics Engineering at Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung. He graduated in 2008. In his study period, he spent most of his time researching user interaction. It was a bit contradictive because he worked mainly in backend programming after he graduated. Most of his research was about ActionScript, PHP, and Javascript. About 2 years later, he came across Ruby on Rails, which sparked a lot more interest in web development. His interest was magnified after he took on the role of Chief Technology Officer in a startup (Wiradipa Nusantara) he built with his friends. Since then, most of his time was contributed to research on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and web performance. He blogs extensively about Ruby and Ruby on Rails at http://hafizbadrie.wordpress.com. He has written a lot about best practices for using Ruby on Rails and also about web performance.

Currently, he is a Lead Developer in The Jakarta Post Digital while maintaining his startup as a CTO in Wiradipa Nusantara. In recent days, he is paying more attention to the development of web performance from the server side with Ruby, the client side with JavaScript, and any other related strategy. He is a member of id-ruby (http://id-ruby.org), an Indonesian community that talks about Ruby and is also a member of Card to Post (http://www.cardtopost.com), an Indonesian community that mainly talks about postcards.

My sincere gratitude to Allah. An article on Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) brought Ashish Bhanushali to my blog and that's where the offer for this book came from. I'd like to thank the Packt Publishing team for their patience and hard work and Giovanni and Nia for making a good teamwe should do this again sometime. I also want to thank my father, mother, brothers, Adelia, and all of the team in Wiradipa Nusantara for your support. I dedicate this book to all developersnot just Ruby on Rails developersand hope it is useful to everyone who reads it.

Nia Mutiara is a software engineer working on a virtual stock gaming iOS application, as well as its server-side web application. For two years, she worked on complex Ruby on Rails and iOS applications. She is a master of JavaScript and CSS, and has used those skills to enhance most web applications that she has worked on. In her spare time, she hangs around Twitter, writes Ruby tutorials in Indonesian, and watches comedy.

Giovanni Sakti has been a developer for 10 years with an emphasis on developing web applications in Java and Ruby. His latest projects and research are focused on API-based web applications with AngularJS as the client-side framework.

He is an active member of the Indonesian Ruby (id-ruby) community and sometimes gives talks about Ruby-related topics there. He writes regularly on his blog http://mightygio.com primarily about Ruby, Rails, AngularJS, and other programming topics.

Giovanni is the founder of PT. Starqle Indonesia, a Jakarta-based company providing products, IT consulting, and development services with a focus on the healthcare industry.

I would like to thank Hafiz and Nia for giving me the opportunity to write this book together. I would also like to dedicate this book to my wife, Elvira, and to my grandmother, father, mother, and sisters, Emmy, Tri, Tina, and Livia. Lastly, I want to send my regards to everyone who shares the same dreams at PT. Starqle Indonesia.

Philip Hallstrom has been building web applications for the last 19 years. He enjoys working in the world of open source, particularly with Linux, Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL. He lives in Olympia, WA with his wife and two boys. When he's not on the golf course, Philip is the CTO for Supreme Golf, a startup looking to make it easy for golfers to find the best tee times available. You can find him online at http://pjkh.com.

Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell is a software developer, hacker, and all-round geek who enjoys everything from Dungeons and Dragons to DevOps. At an early age, he was fascinated with computers, and after cutting his teeth on BASIC with older models of Amstrad CPCs and Amigas, he moved on to Linux admin, C/C++, and then later to Python and Ruby. Since the early 2000s, he has worked on a number of web applications in a range of languages and technologies from small company catalog sites to large web applications serving thousands of people across the globe. Trained and interested in computing "from the bottom up", Andrew has experience in the full stack of computing technologyfrom ASICs to applicationscoming from a background in electronics and computer interfacing.

When he isn't working on web applications or infrastructure tools for gaming events by hosting company, Multiplay, he can be found hacking code, reading or writing fiction, playing computer games, or slaying dragons with his wife, Laura.

Akshay Surve is in pursuit of making a difference through his initiatives, be it for profit or for good. He has a deep understanding of the Consumer Internet, Advertising, and Technology domains having worked with high-growth startups globally. At heart, he is a midnight code junkie and occasionally dabbles in prose. When not with his MacBook, he can either be found preparing for the next marathon or disappearing into the wilderness. He was once seen taking a leap from a mountain top and soaring through the skies solo in what looked like an elongated umbrella from afar.

He is the co-founder of DeltaX (http://www.deltax.com), where he is building "The Advertising Cloud" for advertising agencies and advertisers to efficiently buy, track, attribute, optimize, and report media across the marketing segmentssearch, social, display, RTB, mobile, and video.