May 17: The Happy Streets of Wilmette

Book Status

The Cucumber chapter is nearing final edit for beta. I cleared up a handful of errata, of which probably the most serious was a mistake on how to get the fixture data to pass the first test in the book. I'm hoping to get Beta 3 out later this week, and then I have to decide which direction for beta 4.

Oh, and the book: still on sale.

Agile Working

A few links about being a Rails Developer:

Jake Scruggs asks if you are really doing Agile development.

Mike Gunderloy makes a list of the services and tools that he finds useful in his development business. A great post if you are a small consulting firm.

Harri Kauhanen posts about how to sell Ruby on Rails projects. I've heard most of these in sales meetings over the last few years, though my impression was that it was getting better.

And Then...

The Rubinius Ruby interpreter reached a 1.0 milestone on Friday, as noted by nearly every Ruby person on Twitter. So far, I haven't used it, and my RVM install of it failed.

In a less interesting story, Ruby Gems 1.3.7 was also released.

And Finally...

This Onion article about David Simon doing a series in Wilmette, IL, cracked me up, but mostly because I grew up there.