# Heckle 1.4.2 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heckle-1-4-2-released/159807>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 9, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heckle-1-4-2-released/159807 "2009-02-09T01:52:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heckle-1-4-2-released/159807/1 "2009-02-09T01:52:26Z")

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heckle version 1.4.2 has been released!

- [http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb](http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb)
- [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/heckle](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/heckle)

Heckle is unit test sadism™ at it’s core. Heckle is a mutation  
tester. It modifies your code and runs your tests to make sure they  
fail. The idea is that if code can be changed and your tests don’t  
notice, either that code isn’t being covered or it doesn’t do anything.

It’s like hiring a white-hat hacker to try to break into your server  
and making sure you detect it. You learn the most by trying to break  
things and watching the outcome in an act of unit test sadism.

Changes:

### 1.4.2 / 2009-02-08

- 2 bug fixes:

- [http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb](http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb)

- [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/heckle](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/heckle)

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**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/heckle-1-4-2-released/159807/2 "2009-02-09T07:59:42Z")

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Ryan D. wrote:

> - Fixed Ruby2Ruby dependency and Ruby2Ruby references (name changed).  
> Reported by David C.
> 
> - Fix bug #11435 where [:iter, [:call], …] would cause an endless  
> loop. Reported by Thomas P…
> 
> - [http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb](http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb)
> 
> - [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/heckle](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/heckle)

Ryan, it’s not entirely clear to me that “eval” is evil, but you sure  
are! Ha!

What a wonderful idea you have here…

t.

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