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February 21, 2012

Love Your Lib Directory

by Brian Cardarella

Too many Rails developers incorrectly use and abuse the lib/ directory. I will demonstrate the importance of maintaing conventions in the lib/ directory that conform to what Rubygems is expecting, some "gotchas" if you are not careful, and a pattern I have been using to extract non-application specific code into the lib/ directory as a jumping off point to then eventually extracting that code as a Rubygem

Measuring & Analyzing Things That Matter When You Have Too Many Things To Keep Track Of

by Chad Fowler

Pending...

How to make your first contribution to open source

by Luke Griffiths

Intended for developers new or veteran, who would like to contribute to open source but aren't sure how to start. Luke will talk about a few of the basic obstacles (in your head) to getting involved and how to deal with them, as well as the basic mechanics of pull requests and code reviews using Github. At the end of this talk you'll be ready to make the first commit, which is always the hardest.

January 10, 2012

Valid Attribute, Stasis, and ruby-debug

by Brian Cardarella

Don't test your validation implementation! ValidAttribute is a new take on how you should be testing your model attribute validations. Stasis quickly allows you to expose a directory and its assets to a browser Debug your code with ruby-debug

Tddium

by William Josephson

Pending...

TeamCity CI

by Will Mernagh

Using TeamCity to effectively test your Rails application.

Rails Blog Engine

by Eric Kidd

Pending...

Jenkins + Rails

by Dan Seaver

A primer on getting RVM, Rails and GitHub working with Jenkins

December 13, 2011

Databases Constraints & Polymorphism

by Barun Singh

This talk will discuss how to integrate database constraints into your application, including how to use polymorphism in your application without sacrificing database integrity.

MacRuby for Fun and Profit

by Joshua Ballanco

First, we'll see how to use MacRuby to improve your Cocoa development by utilizing macirb as a Cocoa REPL. Then, we'll see how to build a MacRuby app in Xcode. We'll see how MacRuby let's you create something with the feel and performance of a desktop app, while taking advantage of all the wonderful resources available to a Ruby app.

Decorators in Rails

by Dan Croak

Description pending...

October 11, 2011

Using MongoDB in Anger

by Kyle Banker

You've "gotten the hang of" MongoDB. You get the basic ideas. But you want to build a production-quality app, and you're not sure you're keen on all the inside info. Sound familiar? If so, this talk, which presents a variety of advanced techniques for using MongoDB successfully in production, is for you.

Transforming Ruby Code

by Ben Hughes

Programmatically transforming Ruby code is easier than you think and has several interesting applications: automated refactoring, coding style/best practices enforcement, DSL translation, and more. This talk will explain the concepts behind transforming code and expose some of the tools available to do so.

Backbone.js and Rails

by Jason Morrison

These days, some web apps have more code on the client than on the server. Learn how Backbone.js is put together, how to use it with Rails, and how to make building JavaScript-heavy web apps a pleasure.

September 13, 2011

Capybara Webkit

by Joe Ferris

Description pending...

Minitest

by Steve Klabnik

Minitest is the new default test framework in Ruby 1.9

WTFTDD

by Jeremy Weiskotten

An overview on why you should be test driving your code

factory_girl 2.0

by Ben Orenstein

factory_girl 2.0 has a svelte new look. Find out how to save time and keystrokes in the latest version, with a dash of best practices for good measure.

Capybara + RSpec

by Patrick Robertson

Harness the power of Capybara for acceptance testing without the added cruft of Cucumber.