April 22, 2010: Annnd We're Live. Really. I mean it this time.
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So, about yesterday… Funny story.
Some of you may have gone to the Rails Test Prescriptions book site hoping to buy the book only to see a conspicuous lack of an “Add to Cart” button.
The book was for sale for about ten minutes, just long enough for me to start jumping up and down about it, then was pulled due to some issues with the ebook files. I heard that the famous PragProg ebook generating gerbils went on strike, but that’s just a rumor.
Anyway, the book did go back on sale somewhat latish Wednesday evening, (although a lucky few of you may have gotten more chapters than we originally intended to be a part of this beta, all the chapters will get there soon enough). Thanks to Colleen Toporek, my editor, for helping work through the process.
Also thanks to Matt Polito, whose been saying for weeks that he’d be the first in line to buy the book when it came out. And I can prove he was – only one person managed to buy the book in the brief window it was online in the morning.
Now, though, I can tell you for sure: the book is up, I like it, I hope you like it, too. Buy early, and buy often.
Book Status
Finished up a draft of the article for the PragMag, hopefully that’ll be in the May issue.
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Continuing the Pragmatic theme, here’s an interview with Dave Thomas, that I haven’t listened to yet. Looks like that’ll be a two-part interview when all is done.
Yehuda Katz has another great bundler article, this one on named gem environments.
Cucumber released a beta of version 0.7 promising much, much faster parsing of feature files. Among other things, that makes using tags much more practical. Time to revisit that chapter, I think.
Finally
Jason Seifer and Peter Cooper talk about ugly old programming book covers, then create their own. If you’ve followed Jason for a while, I think you’ll agree that his book contains all of his received wisdom on how well Rails can scale. But, guys, I don’t think it gets worse than my face on the cover.