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"Using Ruby and Rails for Innovation and Creativity"
by Ramesh Rajamani

Book Summary

Using Ruby and Rails for Innovation and Creativity

There are many books and resources to teach Rudy and Ruby on Rails, but there are none that talk about what is the current trend, where is Ruby and Rails headed, what are the mistakes and lessons learnt by companies that have been using it since its inception.

'Using Ruby and Rails for Innovation and Creativity' is a handbook that presents information gathered from various experts on the current trends, the future and lessons learned on Ruby and Rails. The book also provides some of the techniques to scale Rails applications that successful companies have learnt and built over time. This book will:

• Help understand the benefits of using Ruby and Rails
• An insight into Rails and Enterprise application, where it stands
• Help you plan and apply techniques to scale Ruby on Rails applications
• Learn few techniques on improving the performance of Rails applications
• Learn few plugins that could help more in gaining development productivity

Contributors to this book include:

Tim Bray – Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems

Joel Dudley – Bioinformatics Specialist, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at the Stanford University School of Medicine

Jason A Hoffman – Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Joyent

Dr. Anant Jhingran – Engineer, VP and CTO for IBM’s Information Management Division

Julian I Kamil – IBM Centers for Solution Innovation

John Lam – IronRuby Guy and Open Source Ambassador, Microsoft

Alex Le – Co-founder of Serious Buisness Inc, the creation of Friends for Sale

James Moline – Lead Developer, ELC Technologies

Peter Armstrong – Co-founder of Ruboss Technology Corporation

Britt Selvitelle – Developer, Twitter

Adam Wiggins – Co-founder of Heroku