Acknowledgments
For the Japanese Edition
I would like to thank the development team of Ohmsha, Ltd., for publishing the dRuby book again; Akira Yamada, Kouhei Sutou, and Shintaro Kakutani for reviews; and the fireflies from Houki River for encouraging me.
For the English Edition
I would like to thank Makoto Inoue for translating this book, Dave Thomas and Susannah Pfalzer of Pragmatic Bookshelf for giving me the opportunity to publish the English edition, Hisashi Morita and Shintaro Kakutani for advice based on knowledge of the Japanese edition, and all the reviewers—Eric Hodel, Ivo Balbaert, Sam Rose, Kim Shrier, Javier Collado, Brian Schau, Tibor Simic, Stefan Turalski, Colin Yates, Leonard Chin, Elise Huard, Jesse Rosalia, and Chad Dumler-Montplaisir.
English edition
The dRuby Book: Distributed and Parallel Computing with Ruby
by Masatoshi Seki (Translated by Makoto Inoue)
Copyright (C) 2012 by Masatoshi Seki
Originally published by Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.
Original Japanese edition
dRuby ni yoru Bunsan Web Programming
by Masatoshi Seki
Copyright (C) 2005 by Masatoshi Seki
Published by Ohmsha, Ltd.
3-1 Kanda Nishikicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo 101-8460
Japan
The adobe copyright notice shall be included in all copies.