Practical Ruby Gems
David Berubeis a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He's used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language forDr Dobb's Journal. Prior to this, he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic.His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby.com, a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot.com on the Rails engine that powersSermo America's Top Doctorcontest. Additionally, he has worked on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow'sBirdFluBreakingNewssearch engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby.David's journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such asLinux Magazine, Dr Dobb's Journal, andPHP International Magazine. He's also taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as "MySQL and You" and "Making Money with Open Source Software."He lives in New Hampshire and his hobbies include basketball, yo-yos, and sleep.