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17 Josh Crews led our Nashville code retreat 2011 5 months ago
16 Robert Graff over 2 years ago
15 Raimond Garcia over 3 years ago
14 Paul Cortens I have learn so much by reading Pat's blog and mailing list posts over 3 years ago
13 Tilden Moschetti over 3 years ago
12 David Chelimsky over 3 years ago
11 Nicolai Constantin Reuschling over 4 years ago
10 Marcus Wyatt over 4 years ago
9 Tammer Saleh over 4 years ago
8 Antonio Cangiano over 4 years ago
7 Martin Emde This guy certainly knows his RSpec. I hope to work with him in the future. over 4 years ago
6 Obie Fernandez Newest member of the AW Pro Ruby team over 4 years ago
5 Chris Chandler over 4 years ago
4 Jim Remsik Spent time with Pat at RubyConf, looking forward to reading his RSpec book over 4 years ago
3 Giles Bowkett over 4 years ago
2 Scott A. Taylor Great resource for rspec knowledge. Thanks! over 4 years ago
1 BJ Clark Pat is a rails/ruby genius, no question about it. There are no finer developers out there, he can bang out more *execellent* code in one night than many, so called, "experts" can in a week. over 5 years ago

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