Mike Gunderloy is a consultant with "ActionRails":http://www.actionrails.com. He brings 25 years of experience in a variety of languages to bear on his current work with Rails. His near-daily links and other blogging can be found at "A Fresh Cup":http://afreshcup.com and he "twitters":http://twitter.com/MikeG1 too much.
Pratik Naik is a Ruby on Rails consultant with "ActionRails":http://www.actionrails.com and also a member of the "Rails core team":http://rubyonrails.org/core. He maintains a blog at "has_many :bugs, :through => :rails":http://m.onkey.org and has an active "twitter account":http://twitter.com/lifo.
Xavier has been into Rails since 2005, he is currently a Rails consultant. Xavier is president of the <a href="http://www.srug.org/">Spanish Ruby Users Group</a> and has been involved in Rails in several ways. He enjoys combining his passion for Rails and his past life as a proofreader of math textbooks. Oh, he also "tweets":http://twitter.com/fxn!
Jason Zimdars is an experienced creative director and web designer who has lead UI and UX design for numerous websites and web applications. You can see more of his design and writing at <a href="http://www.thinkcage.com/">Thinkcage.com</a> or follow him on <a href="http://twitter.com/JZ">Twitter</a>.
Frederick Cheung is Chief Wizard at Texperts where he has been using Rails since 2006. He is based in Cambridge (UK) and when not consuming fine ales he blogs at "spacevatican.org":http://www.spacevatican.org.
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<% author('Tore Darell', 'toretore') do %>
Tore Darell is an independent developer based in Menton, France who specialises in cruft-free web applications using Ruby, Rails and unobtrusive JavaScript. His home on the internet is his blog "Sneaky Abstractions":http://tore.darell.no.
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<% author('Jeff Dean', 'zilkey') do %>
Jeff Dean is a software engineer with "Pivotal Labs":http://pivotallabs.com.
Cássio Marques is a Brazilian software developer working with different programming languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, CPP and Java, as an independent consultant. He blogs at "/* CODIFICANDO */":http://cassiomarques.wordpress.com, which is mainly written in Portuguese, but will soon get a new section for posts with English translation.
Emilio Tagua -- a.k.a. miloops -- is an Argentinian entrepreneur, developer, open source contributor and Rails evangelist. Cofounder of "Eventioz":http://eventioz.com. He has been using Rails since 2006 and contributing since early 2008. Can be found at gmail, twitter, freenode, everywhere as miloops.
Heiko Webers is the founder of "bauland42":http://www.bauland42.de, a German web application security consulting and development company focused on Ruby on Rails. He blogs at the "Ruby on Rails Security Project":http://www.rorsecurity.info. After 10 years of desktop application development, Heiko has rarely looked back.
Mikel Lindsaar has been working with Rails since 2006 and is the author of the Ruby Mail gem and core contributor (he helped re-write ActionMailer's API). Mikel has a "blog":http://lindsaar.net/ and "tweets":http://twitter.com/raasdnil.