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#47326: Copyeditor is listed as Kim Wimpsett. I thought Molly McBeath was the copyeditor for this one. (The number of people who care might be countab...more...
 P1.0
30-Jul-11
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#49308: The image of Figure 1 on the iPad only show the bars in blue and green. No labels or legend. They are blacked out.--Jonathan Lim

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12-May-12
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#48713: There is a typo at the top of the page, in the Joe Asks box, so this: "the test/ directory, refixed with test_, to similarly named files in...more...
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13-Feb-12
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#47786: In the initial creation of the user2.1_spec.rb, the line: require 'user' should be used just after the the spec_helper require line, in ...more...
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19-Oct-11
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#49317: Of course, the User class doesn’t exist yet, so the failure of this test will drive us to create it: There is no test yet - we have only wr...more...
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12-May-12
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#49318: But it’s essential that we not leave the test in this state.

s/this/that/--Jonathan Lim

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12-May-12
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#47964: Refixed. -> prefixed--Brian maltzan

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19-Nov-11
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#47790: Three lines from the bottom on page 45 there is the commnad line to create the gem: $ jeweler --rspec --gemcutter --create-repo autotest-st...more...
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20-Oct-11
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#47791: On line 4 from the top the line:

...Firing up autospec ...

shouldn't that be:
...Firing up autotest ...--Kosmas Chatzimichalis

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20-Oct-11
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#47940: You write the following: ":But first, we have to add it to our Gemfile: $ gem install watchr" Probably meant add it to the GemFile an...more...
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12-Nov-11
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#47809: As the watcher script file can be named everything we want, wouldn't it be a better idea to have the watchr script file (rails.watchr), named ...more...
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24-Oct-11
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#47810: Would it be a good idea to replace the Spork + Watchr automation with Spork + Guard automation, as Guard seems to be more recently updated? I...more...
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24-Oct-11
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#47306: At the bottom of the page in the "Automating Spork with Watchr", you say "To start out, let's add some watch() for RSpec specs:" and you don't...more...
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22-Jul-11
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#47132: "So if we restart Watchr and make a change to one of our specs (say, gro- cery_list_spec.rb), we get output that looks like this: Finished in...more...
Ben Rady says: The watch('^spec/(.*)_spec\.rb') { |m| run_test_matching(m[1]) } call in the rails.watchr file is intended to handle this case. Is there a problem with that call? 		B4.0
30-May-11

Stuff To Be Considered in the Next Edition

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#46378: It will be better using "bundler" instead of "jeweler".

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10-Feb-11
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#45918: I am a newbie to ruby which means I have to follow your book step by step. From page 16, I execute the below two commands with no problem:...more...
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07-Dec-10
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#45204: "One great way to create a feedback loop for views in our web application is to turn over responsibility for refreshing the browser to our con...more...
 B1.0
02-Oct-10