书名：Ruby on Rails：构建与运行

作者：Bruce A. Tate, Curt Hibbs 著

译者：O'Reilly Taiwan公司 编译

国内出版社：中国电力出版社

出版时间：2007年07月

页数：172

书号：978-7-5641-0872-4

原版书出版商：O'Reilly Media

 

Bruce A. Tate是来自德州奥斯汀的一名独木舟、登山自行车爱好者，他也是两个孩子的爸爸。2001年，他创立J2Lite，LLC（译注）独立顾问公司，现今称为RapidRed。在那里，他主要致力于使用Ruby on Rails从事快速软件开发的培训、实现与咨询。客户涵盖FedEx、Great West Life、AutoGas、TheServerSide以及BEA。他拥有20年的丰富经验，包括在IBM的13年以及担任好几家新创公司的领导层职务的经验。他是个享誉国际的演讲者以及9本广受推崇的软件开发书籍的作者，包含脍炙人口的《超越Java》（O'Reilly出版，中文版由东南大学出版社出版）、赢得Jolt大奖的《轻快的好Java》（O'Reilly出版，影印版由东南大学出版社出版）、备受管理层瞩目的《From Java to Ruby》（Progmatic）及轰动一时的《Bitter Java》（Manning）。

Bruce A. Tate是位独木舟高手、登山自行车专家，也是两个小孩的父亲。闲暇之余，在美国德州的奥斯汀担任顾问工作。在2001年时，他创立了J2Life, LLC公司，这是一家专精于Java永久保存框架与轻量化开发方法的顾问公司。他的客户包括FedEx、Great West Life、TheServerSide以及BEA。他经常在国际性的研讨会与Java用户社区中进行演讲。在成名之前，Bruce花了13年的时间在IBM工作，致力于数据库技术、面向对象基础建设以及Java技术。后来他被一家位于奥斯汀的新兴公司Pervado Systems挖走，协助提供客户端服务。接着又在IronGrid担任CTO，这家公司提供了很棒的Java性能调整工具。Bruce同时也是四本书的作者，包括最畅销的《Bitter Java》（Manning出版）以及赢得Jolt大奖的《轻快的好Java》（影印版，东南大学出版社出版）。划独木舟的第一守则是：心里有疑虑，浅水变地狱。


Bruce A. Tate是个泛舟人、山地越野自行车手以及两个孩子的爸爸。空闲的时候他在德克萨斯州Austin一带做独立顾问。 Bruce于2001年创立J2Life —— 这是一家精于Java持久性框架与轻量化开发方法的公司，其客户包括FedEx、Great West Life、TheServerSide与BEA等。Bruce曾经在全美各地的研讨会上和Java用户组中都发表过演说。在创业之前，Bruce为IBM 服务了13年，从事与数据库技术、面向对象的基础架构与Java等有关的工作。后来，他被一家位于Austin名为Pervado Systems的新公司挖走，帮助建立客户服务实践。之后他还短期地在IronGrid担任CTO职务，设计Java性能工具。他有4本著作，其中包括畅销书《Bitter Java》。

Bruce A. Tate is a kayaker, mountain biker, and father of two. In his spare time, he is an independent consultant in Austin, TX. In 2001, he founded J2Life, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in Java persistence frameworks and lightweight development methods. His customers have included FedEx, Great West Life, TheServerSide, and BEA. He speaks at conferences and Java user's groups around the nation. Before striking out on his own, Bruce spent 13 years at IBM working on database technologies, object-oriented infrastructure, and Java.He was recruited away from IBM to help launch the client services practice in an Austin startup called Pervado Systems. He later served a brief stint as CTO of IronGrid, which built nimble Java performance tools. Bruce is the author of four books, including best-selling Bitter Java.

Bruce A.Tate is a kayaker, mountain biker, and father of two from Austin, Texas. In 2001, he founded the J2Life, LLC independent consultancy —now called RapidRed —where his primary focus is on
training, implementation,and consulting for rapid software development using Ruby on Rails. His customers have included FedEx, Great West Life,AutoGas,TheServerSide, and BEA. His 20 years of experience span a 13-year stint at IBM and severalleadership positions at various startup companies. He's an international speaker and widely respected author of nine software development books, including the provocative Beyond Java(O'Reilly), the Jolt-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java (O'Reilly),the management-focused From Java to Ruby (Pragmatic), and the smash hit Bitter Java (Manning).

 

 

 

Curt Hibbs长久以来一直热衷于新技术及新趋势的发展。然而，他会告诉你之所以如此纯粹是因为他懒，他总是在寻求新方法与新技术，好让工作更轻松愉快、更具生产力。这种倾向促成他在2001年发现Ruby（当时，Ruby在日本以外相对不为人知），也让他开创了一些极为成功的Ruby开放源码项目。在他的职业生涯里的大部分时间中（开始于20世纪70年代早期），Curt曾经担任一些著名公司的顾问，如Hewlett Packard、Intuit、Corel、WordStar、Charles Schwab、Vivendi Universal等，他也曾担任一些新创公司的重要职务。Curt目前任职于在圣路易的波音公司，做资深软件工程师。

Curt Hibbs has always been slightly obsessed with new technologies and tracking technology trends. But he will tell you that this is simply because he is lazy, always looking for new methods and technologies to make his work easier and more productive. This tendency led to his discovery of Ruby in 2001 (when it was still relatively unknown outside of Japan) and to his founding several highly successful Ruby open source projects. For most of his professionalcareer, which started in the early 1970s, Curt has been a consultant to well-known companies such as Hewlett Packard, Intuit, Corel, WordStar, Charles Schwab, Vivendi Universal, and more. He has also been a principal in several startups.
Curt now works as a Senior SoftwareEngineer for The Boeing Company in St. Louis.

 

 

在《Ruy on Rails：构建与运行》一书封面上的动物是ibex（阿尔卑斯野山羊，Capra pyrenaica），它们分布在欧洲、中亚、北非的山区，ibex大部分时间生活在海拔7500到11500英尺（1英尺=0.3048米）的山区。ibex以其令人印象深刻的长角而闻名，雄性成羊的角长达3英尺。求偶季节里，雄性成羊为争取交配的权利在激烈的战斗中以长角相互猛力撞击。
虽然这种英勇事迹的实质意义暧昧含糊，但根据传说，ibex的角异常强壮，以至在生命受威胁时，这种动物可从断崖绝壁上一跃而下，并且凭借着它的长角安然无恙地着陆。
封面图像摘自《Riverside Natural History》一书。