Special Thanks

There are a large number of people who made Ramaze possible by their ongoing efforts in the world of open source and by encouraging and helping me.

This list is by no means a full listing of all these people, but I try to get a good coverage despite that.

I would like to thank:

• Yukihiro Matsumoto a.k.a matz

  For giving the world Ruby and bringing fun back into programming.

• Zed Shaw a.k.a. zedas

  For developing Mongrel, Ramaze started out as a simple Hello World based on that awesome server.

• Christian Neukirchen a.k.a chris2

  For building rack, which is just what the numerous web-developers had anticipated and which will, with no doubt, change the world.

• Pistos

  For continious encouragment and building the first real webpage on Ramaze. His bugreports were invaluable.

• Jim Weirich

  For Rake, which lifts off a lot of tasks from the shoulders of every developer who uses it.

• Thomas Sawyer a.k.a Trans

  Dragging me deep into the rabbit-hole and showing me how awesome Ruby truely is through his work on facets, ratchets and tons of other projects.

• George Moschovitis a.k.a gmosx

  For his tremendous efforts in the Nitro/Og framework, which is a source of steady inspiration for Ramaze and brought me to Ruby in the first place.

• Rob Levin a.k.a. lilo

  He founded the most excellent Freenode IRC-network, where the most important channels for rubyists are located (as is #ramaze). May he rest in peace.

• Loren Segal

  For creating YARD. Without YARD we'd still be stuck using rdoc.

• The guys (and gals) in the various channels on Freenode.

  As the people are way too many to be listed, here the channels that I call my online home. All the people in there deserve special thanks for getting me hooked to Ruby and providing their help in a friendly and patient manner:

  • #nitro
  • #ruby-de
  • #ruby-lang
  • #rubyforce

I'd also like to thank the following people for contributing to the guide:

• Stas Sușcov
• John Pagonis