# Ruby injected into Practices of an Agile Developer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-injected-into-practices-of-an-agile-developer/65379>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-injected-into-practices-of-an-agile-developer/65379 "2006-02-10T12:43:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-injected-into-practices-of-an-agile-developer/65379/1 "2006-02-10T12:43:36Z")

</div>

I recently had the pleasure to help review the  
upcoming Pragmatic Bookshelf title, /Practices  
of an Agile Developer/,

[https://pragprog.com/titles/pad/practices-of-an-agile-developer/](http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/pad/)

I don’t know if was just me, or other reviewers  
like Chad had a hand in it, but the final draft  
that just came back had several mentions of Ruby.  
RDoc also made it in.

Also, I (and others?) pointed out that the word  
“compile” was a bit too old school for an “agile”  
book, and it too changed in the final draft.

If you found /The Pragmatic Programmer/ a must-read  
(although painfully lacking the “Ruby” word), you’ll  
definitely want to read this new title when it  
becomes available next month.

Regards,

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-injected-into-practices-of-an-agile-developer/65379/2 "2006-02-10T14:42:50Z")

</div>

> I recently had the pleasure to help review the  
> upcoming Pragmatic Bookshelf title, /Practices  
> of an Agile Developer/,
> 
> If you found /The Pragmatic Programmer/ a must-read  
> (although painfully lacking the “Ruby” word), you’ll  
> definitely want to read this new title when it  
> becomes available next month.

I also had the opportunity to assist in reviewing this book and must  
concur that it’s an excellent read.

Regards,  
Matthew

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-injected-into-practices-of-an-agile-developer/65379/3 "2006-02-10T15:43:19Z")

</div>

On 2/10/06, Bil K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> If you found /The Pragmatic Programmer/ a must-read  
> (although painfully lacking the “Ruby” word), you’ll  
> definitely want to read this new title when it  
> becomes available next month.

The book was written before the pragmatic programmers’ love affair  
with Ruby, but Ruby is mentioned in passing in the book. I think they  
were just beginning to discover the joys of Ruby then.

P.S: Just thought I’d provide that almost totally useless piece of  
information.