David A. Black
Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Instructor David A. Black is a long-time Ruby programmer, and started developing Rails applications a few months after the first release of Rails. His book Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers was published by Manning Publications in May 2006.
David is one of the founding co-directors of the non-profit organization Ruby Central, Inc., parent organization of both the International Ruby Conference and the International Rails Conference. He is the chief author of scanf.rb in the Ruby standard library, one of the English-language editors of the Ruby language home page, and author and maintainer of the official Ruby Change Request site (RCRchive). David was a keynote speaker at the 2006 Canada on Rails conference, and has been invited to speak to Ruby Users Groups in New York, Denver, London, Grand Rapids, and Philadelphia.
A college professor in the communication field for many years, David has recently left the world of academics to pursue full-time Ruby/Rails consultancy and training.
Books by David A. Black
- Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers (co-author)