intertwingly

One of the things I was blessed with when I came on board with Agile Web Development with Rails, was a book with plenty of executable examples.  One of the things I focused on was automating the execution of the scenarios so that I could try out small changes to the scenarios to see what the effects were.  This had other benefits, such as System Integration Testing of Rails itself.

Now I’ve started on the next level: automatic verification of the results.  This turned out to be easier than I anticipated, and I’m kicking myself for not doing so sooner.

With Rails 3 looming and with this edition of the book selling out, all this automation should come in handy in the development of a fourth edition.