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Verbal Judo by George J. Thompson and Jerry B. Jenkins.
Excellent at teaching how to understand a situation and diffuse conflict. How to employ empathy (not necessarily sympathy). Even how to talk to customer service and remain calm.
There is not much community yet. It is pretty new. It is very different than Rails. It is more of an RPC/Rest system than an MVC system. In my testing on FreeBSD with Postgres it is close to 10x faster than Rails. It is a bit faster than Go and a bit slower than Node. It is quite simple to write and the code itself can be read in a few hours (at most). I'll be posting some sample apps this summer.
My preferred solution is Waxx https://www.waxx.io - It is Ruby and very fast. Mostly functions, no classes. Deploy like this:
waxx deploy stage or waxx deploy prod
The deploy script can be as simple as:
cd /path/to/folder && git pull && waxx migrate && waxx restart
Disclaimer: I am the author of Waxx and I wrote it to be as simple as possible yet still high performance and flexible.
FYI: My neighbor developed something similar in the 70s. It was purchased by a large pantyhose company for many millions with additional revenue promised from royalties from future sales. As soon as they owned it they killed the product to maintain their revenue stream from short-lived hose. The inventor lost millions from sales that never happened. Don't let this happen to you. If you are successful, they will come knocking.
Unbound Booking http://unboundbooking.com connects performers (musicians, educators, storytellers, puppeteers, etc) with libraries, schools, community centers, etc. Email dan@ the domain for more info.
dynadot.com is my preference for domain names and they have hosting plans too.