Well, it’s been way too long, but revision 006 is now up at Lulu and on the download page of this site.

The two biggest changes are a new chapter on Rcov, and a general read-through and edit of the entire manuscript. Here’s the entire changelog:

• New chapter on Rcov
• Typos fixed from Dana Jones, Keith Gautreaux, and Greg Lockwood
• General fixes to things like external links
• Some more clarity in the mocks chapter
• Better discussion of setup blocks in setup chapter, also a much more detailed discussion of contexts and nested contexts
• Error in RSpec matchers section corrected
• Cucumber section benefits from more experience
• Couple of layout experiments. Per a suggestion from Jim Zajkowski, I’ve moved the sidebars to the right to enhance readability. I also changed the code font to Anonymous Pro.

Also, welcome to all the new readers, and a big thanks to Gregg Pollack for recognizing this book on the Ruby on Rails weblog. Hope you all like it.

Crossposting alert: I have a post about test structure and nested contexts up at the Pathfinder Agile Ajax blog. Enjoy.

I heard from Lulu.com support yesterday, and apparently they don’t, in fact, support the kind of updating that I thought they did. Which is my fault, I guess, although the comments in their support forum before I set up the book there led me to believe otherwise.

I’ll be setting up a registration system on this site in the next couple of days where people who purchased the book on Lulu will be able to get updates easily. Long term, this means I’ll move the purchase site for the book, but I don’t have any place to put it at the moment, so I’m stuck with this rather unwieldy process for the interim. Which is irritating for me and for you.