Aaron Sumner

Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec is my first book! Learn how to test your Rails applications the way I did and test with confidence, by focusing on core technologies and simple, readable tests that pass. Available now through Leanpub.
Everyday Rails Everyday Rails is a blog for people who need to build stuff with Rails and get on to their next project. I started it in 2010 to help beginner and intermediate Rails developers be productive while still learning the ropes.
Sound Refound is an online gallery of promotional flyers for concerts. I've collected these over the years, primarily in the Lawrence, Kansas, and Seattle, Washington areas.
Rock Chalk Nation is a convenient collection of headlines from Kansas Jayhawks-related news sources. I made it to be useful to me; perhaps you'll find it handy as well.
Kansas Road Trips is a travel blog of sorts for anyone interested in exploring the nooks and crannies of the Sunflower State. Currently on hiatus.

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I'm Aaron Sumner, of Lawrence, Kansas, USA; by way of Seattle, Washington, and Jersey County, Illinois.

I've worked on the web since 1994 when I began creating some of the very first departmental and organizational websites as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas. Over the years I've worked my way through static HTML to Applescript (yes, Applescript) to Perl to PHP to Ruby. Since 2005 I've worked mostly with Ruby and Rails, with a dose of Javascript and helping of Python.

I'm a Software Engineer at O'Reilly Media and write there sometimes, too.

When off the clock and away from the text editor, I like photography, baseball (go Cards), college sports (Rock Chalk Jayhawk), outdoor cooking, woodworking, and bowling.

I still learn new things every day. Sometimes I share them here. Thanks for following along.