TDD: It’s About More Than Just “Testing”
Recently, in the Rails community, there has been an upsurge of interest in testing. For instance, in the past year alone, we’ve seen the introduction of a bevy of new testing-related gems (i.e....
View ArticleRake.NET
In this podcast, Peter Mounce talks about using Ruby rake to aid with automating .NET software builds – stating that a build script should use a scripting language, because XML hurts too much. Peter...
View ArticleCucumbered
In this talk from FutureRuby, Joseph Wilk gives an introduction to the BDD framework Cucumber and gives valuable tips for getting it adopted and used by customers and developers. Cucumber lets software...
View ArticleEdgecase Dialog: Ruby Code Review
Sit in like a fly on the wall, while Jim Weirich and Joe O’Brien walk through a code review. The team has uncovered some very typical issues that can arise in Ruby projects. The code review is...
View ArticlePickle with Cucumber
Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain...
View ArticleHow TDD/BDD Miss the Point: Introducing EDD
Ruby’s testing culture goes way back, and has been a force for making many Ruby projects a showcase for solid, maintainable code. That said, within a business an exclusive focus on TDD and BDD can...
View ArticleUsing Rake to Build, Run Unit Tests and Create Documentation
This screencast demonstrates how to use Rake to build .NET solution, run unit tests and build documentation. Rake with Ruby is a perfect combination which will eliminate Nant and MSBuild hell.
View ArticleRails in the Large: How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World’s Biggest...
Neal Ford shows what ThoughtWorks learned from scaling Rails development: infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimization, performance. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ford-large-rails
View ArticleCode Metrics with Metric Fu
Maintainability of your code can be measured in many different ways. Jake Scruggs has combined several of the tools that measure you code into one Ruby Gem: metric_fu. Video producer
View ArticleLearning TDD through Test-first Teaching
How to get started with TDD? Test-First Teaching is an innovative teaching approach that is gaining widespread adoption. Sarah Allen talks about how she teaches Ruby and Rails through a test-first...
View ArticleGrease your Suite: Tips and Tricks for Faster Testing
Continuous integration is a great way to keep your code base organized and well tested. But when a test suite takes so long to run that developers stop running it before every commit, they lose their...
View ArticleTesting C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby
Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps....
View ArticleCruiseControl.rb Five Minute Installation
This is a 5 minute video that takes you through the steps of getting CruiseControl.rb up and running with a Ruby on Rails project.
View ArticleThe 7 Habits of Highly Successful Samurai, and How That Helps Rubyists
The Crystal 3-step model consists of practices, principles, and personalization. The practices are what you know or learn how to do. The principles are the laws of design that inform you as to what...
View ArticleSo You Think You Need a Rewrite?
Your application is slowing down and you can’t seem to speed it up. The code is a mess, and changes are taking longer and longer. You’re afraid to release new features for fear of introducing bugs...
View ArticleWhy I Love Continuous Learning with Continuous Deployment
Most of us have worked where there’s tremendous effort on planning, anticipating the needs of our customers, testing before release to our customers, re-thinking, re-considering and re-coding. To a...
View ArticleDojo Retrospectives
Coding dojos offer the chance to practice solid coding techniques without pressure. This video shares experience learned during dojos. Video Producer: chicagoruby.org
View ArticleBDD With Cucumber RSpec
This two videos show how to do Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) with Ruby, Cucumber and RSpec.
View ArticleMetrics Based Refactoring
Metric_fu makes it easy to generate reports that measure code quality. Once you’ve created the reports, what do you do next? You know your code could be better. Now what? As lead developer of...
View ArticleRefactoring from Good to Great
Most developers know enough about refactoring to write code that’s pretty good. They create short methods, and classes with one responsibility. They’re also familiar with a good handful of...
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