Errata for The Cucumber Book
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| passi |
#48702: If you're going to use require_relative, you might as well use the new hashrocket-less syntax.
I imagine books will migrate to the Ruby 1.9...more...
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P1.0
10-Feb-12 |
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| viii |
#48679: "Spoken languages" should be "Spoken Languages"--Mark Wilden |
P1.0
08-Feb-12 |
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| xii |
#48680: "I found myself asking.)" should be "I found myself asking)" (no period)--Mark Wilden |
P1.0
08-Feb-12 |
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| 0 |
#48718: Bundler instructions assume too much prior knowledge of the reader: could be more user friendly.
See forum topic 10355 (The form won't let ...more...
Matt Wynne says: http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/166/topics/10355
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P1.0
14-Feb-12 |
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| 29 |
#48648: The test.feature file should not live in the root dir, but in the features dir. In case the reader just adds on top of what was done in the pr...more...
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P1.0
03-Feb-12 |
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| 46 |
#48663: Scenario: Expiry date invalid
When I enter a card expiry date that's in the past
And all the other details are correct
And I submit the for...more...
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B9.0
05-Feb-12 |
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| 54% |
#48649: Have not got access to page number as reading book on Kindle. However in the Joe Asks: Should I Show Synchronization Points in My Features sec...more...
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P1.0
03-Feb-12 |
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| 61 |
#48605: (2nd paragraph) instead of "a reading computer program" you want "reading a computer program".--Brian Cartwright |
P1.0
28-Jan-12 |
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| 83 |
#48952: “Refactor the feature to make use of the new keyword and compare the new version of the feature with the old one.”
The “new keyword” is not s...more...
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P1.0
17-Mar-12 |
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| 85 |
#48681: "bravely refactoring in code that previously" can just be "bravely refactoring code that previously" (delete "in")--Mark Wilden |
P1.0
08-Feb-12 |
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| 144 |
#48786: On page 144, there is an error in the code:
class UserInterface
def withdraw_from...
withdraw_from should be withdrawal_from to match t...more...
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P1.0
20-Feb-12 |
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| 144 |
#48787: Oops. Page 144 doesn't have an error. Disregard.--Shaun |
P1.0
21-Feb-12 |
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| 168 |
#49014: “It didn’t get chance to update the balance before Cucumber checked it and failed the scenario.”
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P1.0
29-Mar-12 |
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| 174 |
#48701: "ActiveRecord was born in the Ruby on Rails framework". This should make it clear that it was the gem that was born of Rails. The design patte...more...
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P1.0
10-Feb-12 |
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| 176 |
#49015: “This is why we ’ve removed the :balance field that we had before we refactored the class.”
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P1.0
30-Mar-12 |
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| 185 |
#49016: “The advantage of truncation that it’s a cleaning strategy that works reliably when we have more than one database connection” is missing a ve...more...
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P1.0
30-Mar-12 |
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| 192 |
#49017: In “As the number of feature and scenarios grows”, “feature” should be “features”.--Frau Sma |
P1.0
30-Mar-12 |
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| 198 |
#48726: "This file must be placed either in your project's root directory or underneath a directory called config." Supposed to be "underneath in a di...more...
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P1.0
16-Feb-12 |
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| 199 |
#49018: “CI systems detect failure by inspecting the exit status of the processes it’s running”: There’s a singular/plural issue (“CI systems” does no...more...
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P1.0
30-Mar-12 |
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| 199 |
#49019: “Cucumber exits only with an error status (a nonzero value) if there is one or more failing steps”: should be “there are one or more”.--Frau Sma |
P1.0
30-Mar-12 |
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| 214 |
#49020: In “They each have their strength and weaknesses”, “strength” should be “strengths”.--Frau Sma |
P1.0
30-Mar-12 |
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| 217 |
#48727: Unused variable in code: try_again.--Mark Wilden |
P1.0
16-Feb-12 |
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| 222 |
#48730: "Feathers' [recipe]" should be "Feathers's [recipe]". There is only one Feathers here.--Mark Wilden |
P1.0
16-Feb-12 |
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| 235 |
#48569: Since you're discussing what the cucumber installer does, it would be useful if you could also explain the line cucumber 1.2.1 adds to the dat...more...
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B10.0
25-Jan-12 |
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| 251 |
#48540: After the contents of Gemfile, but before "cd squeaker". Need to run 'bundle' after editing Gemfile.
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B10.0
17-Jan-12 |
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| 251 |
#48600: name="criteria"
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P1.0
27-Jan-12 |
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| 257 |
#48759: "we never ran it yet" should be "we haven't run it yet"--Mark Wilden |
P1.0
17-Feb-12 |
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| 258 |
#48760: "We're only *entering* text ... we are not submitting the form by clicking the button or hitting the Enter/Return key"
Instead of "entering...more...
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P1.0
17-Feb-12 |
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| 267 |
#48761: "Capybara's rack mode"--Mark Wilden |
P1.0
17-Feb-12 |
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| 284 |
#48728: The list of files at the top of the page could contain Gemfile and Gemfile.lock.--Mark Wilden |
P1.0
16-Feb-12 |
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| 291 |
#48664: The /^I run "(.*)"$/ step definition is deprecated. Please use the `backticks` version.
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P1.0
05-Feb-12 |
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| 295 |
#48666: "Out first two steps" should be "Our first two steps".--Martin Harrigan |
P1.0
05-Feb-12 |
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| 296 |
#48601: unnecessary page break before list of platforms--iain |
P1.0
27-Jan-12 |
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| 299 |
#48729: "These [gems] are installed by adding them to your Gemfile and running bundle update". Bundle update will work for the example Gemfile, becaus...more...
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P1.0
16-Feb-12 |
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| 304 |
#48796: I had to change my selector as appearing in the 05 code fro movie_steps/rb to get pass from
When /^I create a movie Caddyshack in the Comedy...more...
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P1.0
22-Feb-12 |
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| 2011 | Dpuiq |
#48996: Your article was exclleent and erudite.--EVnKtzNulPCwZ |
P1.0
27-Mar-12 |
