diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/html/authors.html b/railties/doc/guides/html/authors.html
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--- a/railties/doc/guides/html/authors.html
+++ b/railties/doc/guides/html/authors.html
@@ -241,6 +241,11 @@ and unobtrusive JavaScript. His home on the internet is his blog <a href="http:/
 <div class="sidebar-title">Cássio Marques</div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Cássio Marques is a Brazilian software developer working with different programming languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, C++ and Java, as an independent consultant. He blogs at <a href="http://cassiomarques.wordpress.com">http://cassiomarques.wordpress.com</a>, which is mainly written in portuguese, but will soon get a new section for posts with english translation.</p></div>
 </div></div>
+<div class="sidebarblock" id="lifo">
+<div class="sidebar-content">
+<div class="sidebar-title">Pratik Naik</div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Pratik Naik is an independent Ruby on Rails consultant and also a member of the <a href="http://rubyonrails.com/core">Rails core team</a>. He blogs semi-regularly at <a href="http://m.onkey.org">has_many :bugs, :through =&gt; :rails</a> and has an active <a href="http://twitter.com/lifo">twitter account</a> .</p></div>
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diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/html/performance_testing.html b/railties/doc/guides/html/performance_testing.html
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--- a/railties/doc/guides/html/performance_testing.html
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diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/html/rails_on_rack.html b/railties/doc/guides/html/rails_on_rack.html
index aeff78c02e5b5a86ebe4105594a6e3b0e9e43d8a..a1ecd978b61f3f3277be6ef85521bbaa2a5920e4 100644
--- a/railties/doc/guides/html/rails_on_rack.html
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@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
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diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/source/authors.txt b/railties/doc/guides/source/authors.txt
index aaa428fd79bf3a4d776258e5d51574a158d8516f..d4862fe4b989b5c17ee62b9d666407f2efacd0a1 100644
--- a/railties/doc/guides/source/authors.txt
+++ b/railties/doc/guides/source/authors.txt
@@ -49,3 +49,9 @@ Jeff Dean is a software engineer with http://pivotallabs.com/[Pivotal Labs].
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 Cássio Marques is a Brazilian software developer working with different programming languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, C++ and Java, as an independent consultant. He blogs at http://cassiomarques.wordpress.com, which is mainly written in portuguese, but will soon get a new section for posts with english translation.
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+
+.Pratik Naik
+[[lifo]]
+***********************************************************
+Pratik Naik is an independent Ruby on Rails consultant and also a member of the http://rubyonrails.com/core[Rails core team]. He blogs semi-regularly at http://m.onkey.org[has_many :bugs, :through => :rails] and has an active http://twitter.com/lifo[twitter account] .
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diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/source/performance_testing.txt b/railties/doc/guides/source/performance_testing.txt
index bf01f8e362673c32755fc8bc181b5ebb0c70caed..250cf290a293e874d09fb11cdaf523ce4498ca88 100644
--- a/railties/doc/guides/source/performance_testing.txt
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@@ -556,6 +556,5 @@ Rails has been lucky to have three startups dedicated to Rails specific performa
 
 http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16213-rails-guides/tickets/4[Lighthouse ticket]
 
-* January 9, 2009: Complete rewrite by Pratik
-* October 17, 2008: First revision by Pratik
+* January 9, 2009: Complete rewrite by link:../authors.html#lifo[Pratik]
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index ad316567cc9179815e33902e312d3e71265716ba..6607c88928d7ef9672b001bf3582e7a23e412dfe 100644
--- a/railties/doc/guides/source/rails_on_rack.txt
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 http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16213-rails-guides/tickets/4[Lighthouse ticket]
 
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