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Yet another release of the rcov code coverage tool for Ruby. The one big feature introduced in this release is the ability to generate cross-referenced reports showing where methods are called from. This should prove useful when you're trying to optimize your program, or even when just trying to understand what is going on.

As anticipated in the teaser I posted a few days ago, cross-referenced reports look like this:

You can find a sample cross-referenced report at http://eigenclass.org/static/rcov-sample-report-crossref/.

As usual, there are also some improvements in the heuristics (many multi-line quoted strings work now), a few additional features, more polishing of the existing ones and a bunch of bugfixes.

This release is the first to include RubyGems packages: both a binary one for Win32 and a platform-independent one for all those with a compiler, (or a lot of patience, if willing to run rcov in pure-Ruby mode).

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