I actually follow a very similar pattern when developing in both Ruby and Clojure. I particularly like it in Clojure because I can run `(doc function-name)` to get some documentation on the function I intend to use (I can never remember the order of arguments!!).
I do this a lot in the ipython REPL. You can type "method_name?" and see the docstring and some other basic info about the method (like args), its extremely helpful.
