Not far from a real Magical Kingdom, in the enchanting city of Orlando, lives a great programmer by the name of Jeremy McAnally. By day he codes in Ruby; by night he engineers patterns for his wife's clothing design venture. And in betwixt he writes books on Ruby and Rails, manages a seriously good blog, releases Ruby libraries, and organizes Ruby conferences, bringing together the great minds of the language that he loves. But before I go off on how brilliant this guy is, let me back up and introduce you to a much younger Jeremy McAnally, of Huntsville, Alabama.