Great interview Noel - what an amazing career you’ve had! 
The last thing you said about why it’s worth going with a publisher like PragProg has always been the reason I only buy professionally published books now - that you end up with a better book because of the professional editing and guidance (I think it can make the world of difference).
A few questions for you…
As someone who’s been involved with Rails for a while, where do you think it is heading or what we might see next?
We’ve also seen Ruby reach v3 recently, have you had much time to play with it? What do you like most about it? What do you think we might see in Ruby 4? 