It is probably impossible to list down the names of all the developers whose free and open source software we use daily for development and fun. But we absolutely want to extend our gratitude and good wishes to the following people whose code is directly a part of WebROaR at this point.

(Please note that these people are not affiliated with WebROaR in any way, so you should send all your bouquets and brickbats for this software only to us.)

Primary Author(s)		Software
Blaine Cook		starling ruby gem
Christian Neukirchen		rack ruby gem
David Chelimsky   &   Steven Baker		rspec ruby gem
David Heinemeier Hansson		Ruby on Rails ,   SSL Requirement Plugin
Jamis Buck		sqlite3-ruby gem
Jim Weirich		rake ruby gem
John Glazebrook		Open Flash Chart 2
John Resig		jQuery
Kirill Simonov		libyaml
lisukorin		Open Flash Chart 2 Plugin
Marc Lehmann		libev
Nikos Mavroyanopoulos		libgnutls
Richard Kilmer		rubygems
Ryan Dahl		libebb
RyuK		Exception Handling Code
Tim Harper		calendar_date_select ruby gem
Yukihiro Matsumoto		libruby

In addition to all of the above, the following people deserve special mention for their work so far in open source deployment software for Ruby Web Applications. We have used their software ourselves, and used it as a source of good ideas.

Hongli Lai   &   Ninh Bui		Passenger
Marc-Andre Cournoyer		Thin
Zed Shaw		Mongrel