September 13, 2011
WTFTDD
by Jeremy Weiskotten
An overview on why you should be test driving your code
Next Event: Hackfest @ thoughtbot
Boston Ruby Group
An overview on why you should be test driving your code
Format dates and times based on human-friendly examples, not arcane strftime directives! Jeremy demonstrates stamp, a new gem he wrote to remove the pain of date and time formatting.
Jeremy demonstrates how to easily set up continuous integration for your open source projects using Travis CI
Patients Like Me's experience with Performable
HTML and CSS are ubiquitous on the web, but they were mostly created in a vacuum. Haml, Sass, and Compass provide helpful abstractions and utilities to remove some of the repetition and noise in your code for rapid development and easier maintenance. We'll discuss the basics and general syntax, then dive into some code to see how it really works.