After last night's Columbus Ruby Brigade meeting several of us were over at a local watering hole soaking up some Guinness and a great conversation. Like all great conversations, at some point the conversation devolved into war stories, then then one-upsmanship, and finally a lot of hero worship.

And no adulation is complete until some one points out that those folks we put up on pedestals are normal people, much like the rest of us.

Of course being a bunch of Ruby enthusiasts, with several bordering on fanatics, that statement when something like

They write their code just like everyone else, one test spec at a time.

Yeah, that's right... BDD, FTW!