In case some of you are interested in this.... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: HRUG Meeting Next Wed 8th March 6-8pm POST 302 - Sam Joseph on "Rails Tests Baked In" Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:13:32 +0900 From: Sam Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICS Grads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
***************************************************** ****** H O N O L U L U * C O D E R S * M E E T I N G ******** ***************************************************** This month's Honolulu Coders meeting will take place on Wednesday 8th March from 6pm to 8pm. Check out the community web page: http://discourse.ics.hawaii.edu/interaction/workspaces.php?workspace=5 Join the honolulu coders community: http://discourse.ics.hawaii.edu/home/register.php ********** LOCATION INFORMATION ********** This month's meeting will be held in the POST building, room 302, at the University of Hawaii Manoa campus. http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/vtour?Manoa=l=POST UoH parking information is here: http://www.hawaii.edu/parking/visitorParking.html ********** NEW MEETING AGENDA ********** The meeting's agenda is as follows: 6:00pm - 6:45pm "Rails Tests Baked In " Main talk by Sam Joseph 6:45pm - 7:00pm Discussion 7:00pm - 7:15pm Pizza Break sponsored by Ikayzo http://www.ikayzo.com/ 7:15pm - 7:45pm Pattern Workshop - Sam Joseph introduces the Chain of Responsibility Pattern 7:45pm - 8:00pm Workshop discussion The talk abstracts and speaker biographies are as follows: Main Talk Title: Rails Tests Baked In Main Talk Abstract: Some would argue that Rails is significantly better in it’s ease of use when it comes to unit, functional, and load testing. Even going so far as to say that it has everything you need to test your application baked right into the framework. Sam Joseph takes us through the full rails testing experience and shows how he has made use of automated rails testing as part of the discourse PHP --> RoR switchover that he is overseeing. Main Talk Biography: Sam Joseph has been programming in industry and academia for about 12 years, and is still learning. Since most of his time seems to be spent fixing old code that has no apparently rational design strategy (both written by himself and others) he is keen to try improve his programming design skills. RubyOnRails seems to offer additional help by providing code so terse and well designed that you don't get caught in the quicksand of an overly flexible behemoth like J2EE. He seems to have little free time at the moment, and so is very grateful to live close to the beach so he can get some occasional surfing in. Pattern Workshop: Chain of Responsibility Pattern Workshop Abstract: Avoid coupling the sender of a request to its receiver by giving more than one object a chance to handle the request. Chain the receiving objects and pass the request along the chain until an object handles it. http://home.earthlink.net/~huston2/dp/chain.html -- Kevin W. English [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dude, Check out my home page: http://www.kenglish77.com 808-271-5125 ()~() (-___-) ==`-'==