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Ruby on Rails? What’s that?” asks my uncle. “You write about this

stuff for dummies? You mean those black and yellow books that everyone buys?”

“Yes, like the one I’m quoting you in,” I say. “Please check your spelling as

you speak.”

“I will. But what’s Ruby on Rails? Is it the 6:05 train to Poughkeepsie? Is it the

name of an old vaudeville act? Is it a pop singer? A rock band? Is it a rare

stone from India? Is it the codename of an informer in a political scandal?”

“No.” “Is it the name of an exotic cocktail? A species of bird? An animal act in a

circus? A John D. MacDonald title?”

Finally, I interrupt. “Ruby on Rails is a computer thing.”

“What kind of computer thing?” he asks.

“It’s a framework for creating applications with Web interfaces to databases.”

“Oh, yeah?” he says. “Your nephew from Brooklyn, he read Getting Ahead in

Politics For Dummies. He loved the book. Did you write that one?”