It was worth the money though :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walter Kruse
Sent: 10 April 2007 10:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Everyday Scripting with Ruby (the book)
I was also a reviewer, but I
On 4/10/07, Walter Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was also a reviewer, but I purchased my copy myself.
I was thinking of buying it, but they said I would receive one for free, so
I am waiting and waiting... :)
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I was also a reviewer, but I purchased my copy myself.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Hawthorne
Sent: 10 April 2007 10:52 AM
To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Everyday Scripting with Ruby (the book)
Hi
Hi Željko,
I was also a reviewer and I live in the UK. Daniel sent me a copy
about two months ago. I'd guess yours got lost in the post.
George Hawthorne
On 10 Apr 2007, at 08:45, Željko Filipin wrote:
> I was reviewer, and over two months ago I received an e-mail from
> Daniel Steinberg (
I was reviewer, and over two months ago I received an e-mail from Daniel
Steinberg (Pragmatic Programmers) saying that if I send them my mailing
address they would send me a free copy. I replied with my mailing address,
but the book did not arrive.
I even sent him a reminder two weeks ago. No rep
Upon further review...
I finally got to the book and gave it a proper reading. (Although I still need
to go back and do some of the excercises)
I was inaccurate in my initial comments based on a superficial browsing of the
book a couple months back. Mea culpa.
The first half is a lot of review
Got the book. Only skimmed through at first, but Chapter 2's introduction
to just basic command line stuff is important. Developers tend to forget
that this kind of stuff is not guaranteed for testers.
I *love* the Ruby Facts sections for Arrays, Regular Expressions and
Hashes. About 50-100 exampl
> After reading Brian's book, I was able to construct well-designed Ruby
> scripts, refactor all of my earlier Watir scripts, and can now understand
> more lengthy and complex pieces of Ruby code. I also really like how Brian
> didn't start with the typical "hello world" example and instead jumped
On 01/02/07, Richard Conroy wrote:
I am curious what everyone thinks of this (new) book.
It starts off well, with the first example tutorial being
how to test if an uninstaller worked. No hello world,
silly arithmetic examples etc.
Well it is ordered, I will know myself soon.
I reviewed a l
The test and watir coverage seemed
> pretty light overall, mostly covered basic Ruby stuff like working with
> Strings, Arrays, RegExp etc. and programming 101 - decision structures,
> variables etc. Maybe good for a beginner, but didn't turn out to be
> what I expected. No slight to Brian with
> I've ordered one also. I was a reviewer for the early drafts of the
> book, which were very good, I'm looking forward to seeing how the
> final version came out!
I was very excited for the release of this book (back when it was going
to be called Scripting for Testers or something along those
> I've ordered one also. I was a reviewer for the early drafts of the
> book, which were very good, I'm looking forward to seeing how the
> final version came out!
Ditto.
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Ev
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:30 AM
Subject: [Wtr-general] Everyday Scripting with Ruby (the book)
>I am curious what everyone thinks of this (new) book.
>
> It starts off well, with the first example tutorial being
> how to test if an uninstaller worked. No hello world,
> silly ar
Richard Conroy wrote:
> I am curious what everyone thinks of this (new) book.
>
> It starts off well, with the first example tutorial being
> how to test if an uninstaller worked.
I'm hooked. Brian's no slacker, and he started with the T-word!
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Phlip
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand <-- N
On 2/1/07, Richard Conroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am curious what everyone thinks of this (new) book.
>
> It starts off well, with the first example tutorial being
> how to test if an uninstaller worked. No hello world,
> silly arithmetic examples etc.
>
> Well it is ordered, I will know mys
I am curious what everyone thinks of this (new) book.
It starts off well, with the first example tutorial being
how to test if an uninstaller worked. No hello world,
silly arithmetic examples etc.
Well it is ordered, I will know myself soon.
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