Cucumber is a BDD tool that aids in outside-in development by executing plain-text features/stories as automated acceptance tests. Written in conjunction with the stakeholder, these Cucumber “features†clearly articulate business value and also serve as a practical guide throughout the development process: by explicitly outlining the expected outcomes of various …
This is a screen cast, of Micah writing code to implement Langston’s Ant, BDD style. He uses the shiny new RubyMine IDE for development, and Limelight to run the simulation. In martial arts, the techniques performed in kata are not always by the book. There is an aspect of art, …
This is a brief screencast for iPhone developers that illustrates setting up and using the open source ObjectiveResource framework to connect an iPhone application to a Rails application. Additional resources ObjectiveResource home page iPhone programming tutorial iCodeBlog – iPhone programming blog
A presentation by David A. Black of the evolution of ruby and ruby on rails at RailsConf Europe 2008.
In this talk we will explore a few of the open source projects we work on here at Engine Yard. I will give a detailed overview of the Merb web framework and what it brings to the table. We will also discuss Rubinius, an alternate ruby VM based on SmallTalk …
Monkeybars is a JRuby library that gives Ruby developers easy access to the world of Swing GUI development. Much of the complexity of Swing is removed and appropriately Ruby-ized. There is an emphasis on testability and better decomposition of apps that are historically notoriously difficult to test. This talk will …