I loved it. Beyond pure technical chops, Russ Olsen is a great writer which makes his books stand out to me from other programming books I've read. In Design

I loved it. Beyond pure technical chops, Russ Olsen is a great writer which makes his books stand out to me from other programming books I've read. In Design Patterns in Ruby each chapter handles a different pattern with a simple example that's easy to understand. And at the end of each chapter Olsen points out where that pattern is used "in the wild" in popular ruby projects if you'd like to see a larger example.