About Rails Tutorial
Over ten Learn Enough tutorials, including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, one of the most popular introductions to web development, are either written by Michael or by coauthors. Michael has been honored with a Ruby Hero Award in 2011 for his contributions to the programming community and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences. In addition, Michael taught the core physics curriculum while he was a graduate student at Caltech. Rails Tutorial was well-liked by the students and received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching for his work there. Michael studied general relativity at Caltech with Nobel laureate Kip Thorne. He also met Stephen Hawking, a friend of Kip's and a frequent visitor to the campus.