This session will highlight some of the most fundamental and timeless best practices described in Kent Beck’s book “SmallTalk Best Practice Patterns†in the context of Ruby development. The Ruby community has fostered a great pioneering spirit at its core. Rubyists eagerly investigate new tools, approaches and programming techniques to …
TourBus is an application that does web testing on real-world servers. It combines the flexibility and expressiveness of a functional web test suite, the statefulness and intelligence of a regression test suite, and the concurrency of a load/stress/bench suite. In short, it can test your web application from end to …
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 presented in three acts. Act I is a review of a typical rails …
This is a talk on DSL purpose, design, and construction. There’s a lot of FUD for and against DSL’s, and hopefully this presentation will cut through a lot of the B.S. and present the costs and benefits in a straightforward and intellectually honest manner with a pinch of sarcastic humor …
MRI, JRuby, Rubinius and other ruby implementations. What is an extension developer to do? One for each? Enter Foreign Function Invocation. Rubinius and JRuby ship with a version of libffi, and the ‘ffi’ rubygem for MRI. Now we, as extension developers, can write an extension once, and have it run …
Sequel is the database toolkit for ruby. This session will discuss the philosophy, design, implementation, and use of Sequel, as well as its history, current status, and future directions. It will show how to use core Sequel via datasets to manipulate sets of objects, as well as Sequel models to …