Ryan's Scraps, Ryan Daigle's irreverent personal blog, is dedicated to summarizing and detailing the latest major features that make their way into the Ruby on Rails framework. With over 7,000 subscribers, it provides a valuable service to the Rails community and serves as an extension to Ryan's Ruby and iPhone consultancy, Y Factorial.

Rail Spikes is Eric Chapweske, Jonathan Dahl, and Luke Francl, three developers who enjoy Ruby, Rails, startups, TDD, programming languages, consulting, and usable design. They are responsible for several Rails plugins, a few Ruby gems, four startups, conference presentations worldwide, and dozens of Rails applications.

I'm Josh Susser, and this is my geek blog. It's mainly about Ruby on Rails programming, but other stuff will creep in from time to time. I've been a professional programmer for over 20 years (with time off for good behavior). I also fancy myself something of a writer, thus the blog is a good outlet for two of the things that keep me from getting enough sleep.

Rails Envy is the team of Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer. On their blog they write Ruby tutorials, release humorous geek videos, and produce the Rails Envy Podcast, the only weekly news podcast for Ruby developers. They speak frequently at technology conferences and once killed a bear using only sign language.

Jamis Buck has been blogging about Ruby and Rails since 2005, focusing on elegance and opinions in software design. He is the author several well-known open-source Ruby libraries and applications, including the popular remote-automation utility, Capistrano.

Obie Fernandez is the CTO/Founder of HashRocket, a boutique web consultancy and product shop headquartered in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Obie has a well-read blog and speaks at conferences and technical user groups on a regular basis. He is also a series editor and book author for Addison-Wesley.

Geoffrey Grosenbach has been one of the premiere Rails bloggers since 2005 with articles covering the intersection of graphic design and website development. He is the founder of PeepCode Screencasts, the host of the official Ruby on Rails Podcast, and has appeared in several books related to Rails and website design.

The Softies on Rails are Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen, two former Microsoft Certified Professionals who discovered the joy of developing web applications with Rails in 2005 and have never looked back. Softies on Rails takes a unique look at Ruby and Rails development for those coming from a Microsoft background.