On Friday, May 17, 2013 11:59:34 PM UTC+10, Mike Bailey wrote:
> I'd be happy to write it over the weekend. Peer review would be
> appreciated. :-)
>
Cool, please do! In the mean time I've just finished a simple version of
selection script which we can run on Tuesday morning:
https://github.co
Mike: neat! Pull request? ;) If not let me know, as I'll just do the simpler
and probably sufficient, but decidedly less cool, one-liner SQL. We've plenty
else to chew off in the next few weeks…
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On Friday, May 17, 2013 12:45:55 PM UTC+10, Mike Bailey wrote:
> What process is being used for the ballot draw?
>
> Has a transparent ballot been considered? Given it's a community event
> open to anyone I think a transparent process would be good.
>
I'm in charge of the ballot, and I'll be tr
Howdy folks!
For those attending Railscamp 11 on the Gold Coast in a few weeks time, or
if you've curiously followed my various railscamptee escapades in the past,
the latest and last (from me) railscamp tee and accompanying website is
live:
http://railscampteev9.toolmantim.com/
There's no ne
On 24/11/2010, at 1:26 PM, dnagir wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied. Appreciate it.
>
> Assuming the designer is available most of the time, then it seems all
> agree here that:
>
> 1. Continuous communication between dev<-->business<-->designer is the
> key.
> 2. Making it right is an iterativ
On 24/11/2010, at 1:10 PM, Nicholas Faiz wrote:
> I think you may have made an assumption here. How does involving a
> mockup tool mean that the process "from idea to execution", that you
> mention, isn't followed and how does it mean that design is thrown
> over the fence?
Don't get me wrong, I'
On 24/11/2010, at 12:13 PM, Nicholas Faiz wrote:
> Using mockup tools like Balsamiq help a great deal, especially if your
> customer is happy to use it to help visualize the application you're
> building. The designer can also work from that too, but the customer
> understands that the rougher loo
Rather than you needing to get involved during design I'd flip it and say get
the designer involved during build stage, actually working on
front-end code too. Pretty soon they'll be doing Rails-friendly design work,
and they can see the holes in the design and plug them or modify the design as
On 19/10/2010, at 5:56 PM, Xavier Shay wrote:
> On 19/10/10 1:46 PM, Steve H wrote:
>> I'm trying to find a good way to set up variables related to a web
>> page but not the page itself, for example:
>>
>> * the page title
>> * the description
>> * whether it is the currently active tab
>> * the
On 19/10/2010, at 2:26 PM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
>> * the page title
>
> Controller. Use helper methods if there's logic behind determining that.
>
>> * the description
>
> Shouldn't change for each page.
>
>> * whether it is the currently active tab
>
> Two options: on the Ruby side, do a
Who wants?
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I've spoken to Lisa and they're almost at capacity for the conference, so
there's no user group discounts this year.
Best you can get is early bird rate which ends today, or to get 5+ people to
get a group discount.
Also FYI the eventbrite site includes GST, the YOW conference site is excluding
> OMG! You've become an Opera fanboi!
Glad you said it.
:D
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On 19/08/2010, at 11:04 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote:
> I'm not sure how to put this. I want user to be able to modify their
> own email template from the web front-end with some variables that
> gets replaced by values from the database. Now it wouldn't be possible
> to use erb as the email template
On 10/08/2010, at 4:46 PM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
> But... how do you spec that?
>
> ps: sorry, someone had to ask :)
http://github.com/lachie/http_vanilli
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On 10/08/2010, at 4:17 PM, James Healy wrote:
> I've recently used directsms.com.au. The API is a simple POST one - not
> exactly RESTful, but the documentation is clear and it didn't take long
> to build a small wrapper class.
>
> I can't comment on their support, but setup was fast and painfree
On 07/08/2010, at 3:15 PM, Korny Sietsma wrote:
> p.s. We might be honeymooning in NZ though, so if you could move it back a
> week or two, I could possibly sneak out and attend?
If you do this I will slap you on behalf of your newly-wed wife.
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On 29/07/2010, at 10:34 AM, Ben Schwarz wrote:
> The speakers put in a hell of a lot of preparation time, I'd hate for anyone
> to feel "rejected".
> This is happened before, it sucked. I don't want it happening again.
>
> Speakers change from day to day. As an estimate, I aim to book 6 talks a
>> CoffeeScript provides a basic classstructure that allows you to name your
>> class, set the superclass, assign prototypal properties, and define the
>> constructor, in a single assignable expression.
>
> Which, frankly, is all Prototype is doing too.
>
> So, though that might not be strictly
On 14/07/2010, at 9:52 AM, David Parry wrote:
> On 13/07/2010, at 5:51 PM, Sean Seefried wrote:
>> A really cool refactor would be to make it dependent on Prototype OR jQuery.
>
> Well, the only reason it depends on Prototype is for the Class/Inheritance
> features of Prototype, so an even bette
On 07/07/2010, at 5:56 PM, Ben Hoskings wrote:
> So, drop-in offices of Sydney & Canberra, could I pull up a desk for a day or
> two sometime over the next couple of weeks?
Course! The Bench @ ARHQ is always available to anyone dropping by Sydneytown
for a day or two.
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You know Rails has had this via asset timestamping for donkeys years?
Yeah, and it's BROKEN.
It's more that the *proxies* are BROKEN :) HTTP spec says not to cache
URIs with query strings, *unless* they contain expiration information.
All browsers will do the right thing, it's just proxy s
On 12/06/2010, at 1:14 PM, Mike Bailey wrote:
One of the tricks to improving the performance of your website is to
optimize caching. By instructing browsers and proxies to cache assets
that don’t change very often (css, images, javascript), we can reduce
page load time as well as bandwidth costs
Thought Sydney peeps might be interested in Dave Thomas' talk on
"Confessions of an Object'holic' and Statefull Sinner " talk on June 1
at Atlassian.
It's $10 and you can register here:
http://yownighttechsydneyjune.eventbrite.com/
If you haven't seen Dave Thomas talk before, he's great. He
On 21/04/2010, at 12:51 PM, Tim Lucas wrote:
Hey Jono,
My only feedback is to use the various ones and see what you think.
I use Machinist, but you might like FG.
It's up to you!
Apologies, I saw the link to the article and assumed it was addressed
to me.
Rant away :)
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Hey Jono,
My only feedback is to use the various ones and see what you think.
I use Machinist, but you might like FG.
It's up to you!
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On 21/04/2010, at 12:33 PM, Jono wrote:
Hi there!
I'm in the process of deciding between various libraries for test data
generation. The obvious popu
have arrived...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toolmantim/4515821495/
Be the first to grab one at RORO Syd tonight.
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If you want to join in and do a lightning talk (5min) or try your
hand at a chunkier sized talk (15min) then head on over to the wiki
and signup.
http://bit.ly/Wut7s
Have put myself down for two lightning talks. One is Railscamp Tee,
with HAML and SASS/SCSS 3.0. The other is Bondi Sizzle,
On 23/03/2010, at 12:16 AM, Brett Goulder wrote:
Due to a prior commitment, I have to bow out of the hack night
tomorrow. My slot opened for anybody who wants it.
I can't make it either gang! I meant to remove myself from the wiki
long ago, but it seems I must have simply imagined removing
On 16/03/2010, at 6:06 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote:
Creating a *duplicate* table for storing unconfirmed records is DRY?
See, madness!
Say you're building a cart checkout process and you'd like a
shipping & payment details confirmation screen ("Please verify that
the following shipping & pa
On 04/03/2010, at 1:30 PM, Daryl Manning
wrote:
The next generation of our campaigning platform is in Rails but we
have loads of side projects/features/ideas we never have enough
people/time/space/bandwidth to get to.
Throw them on the wiki ?
Yes!!
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On 10/01/2010, at 7:13 PM, Matt Allen wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Andrew Grimm > wrote:
(Preferably something that is work safe, so nothing mentioning
forking, pasties or peepcode please)
Do you work for the Pope Andrew? :)
I'm sure I have a webjam sticker or 2 kicking about in my
On 23/12/2009, at 12:45 PM, David Lee wrote:
> If you're interested in trying it out, I just pushed
> http://github.com/davidlee/boots
>
> git clone git://github.com/davidlee/boots.git
> cd boots
> [sudo] ruby setup.rb
>
> This will install it to the first site_ruby folder in your load path
>
On 23/12/2009, at 11:28 AM, David Lee wrote:
> best case scenario (assuming a gem which installs to say site_ruby),
> something like:
>
> require 'bootr'
> boot '../spec_helper'
>
>
> or,
> require 'bootr'
> load_path '..'
> require 'spec_helper'
>
> which is - i think - an improvement. Not an a
On 08/12/2009, at 2:46 PM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
> Also Myles, your plugin is nice and Imma let you use it. I think
> though that a substantial amount of markup being maintained both
> through a JS-based templating language and server side is pants.
There's two solutions to that problem: don't d
examples, "puts" and having full-blown suite of regression tests.
http://vimeo.com/7866214
Tim Lucas: Tweeps
Tim demos Tweeps, the twitter directory application built for the Web
Directions South 2009 conference. Tim shows how you could structure a
larger Sinatra application with exampl
On 19/10/2009, at 10:41 AM, Ryan Bigg wrote:
> Be wary of passing in a Time-based Range object to ActiveRecord's
> conditions like that as I've seen behaviour where it will check for
> every second of that range. It could have changed since I've looked
> though.
There's been much discussio
> Anyone had any experience or can offer advice in this area? Could XMPP
> and ejabberd be another alternative?
>
> http://www.stream-hub.com/
> http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/
> http://www.lightstreamer.com/
Just noticed this on the wire this morning, very nice way to push
stuff out:
http://g
On 16/10/2009, at 5:44 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes wrote:
> No -- really don't want to camp. I'd rather separate bunks in
> separate rooms -- I am just curious if there is another option --
> even if it costs more.
I can organize a 5 star cabin on wheels with jacuzzi for $1k/night, DM
me for payp
On 07/10/2009, at 11:00 AM, Carl Woodward wrote:
> We have done another test. It is taken off Tim's code but a more
> succinct example.
>
> https://gist.github.com/7a512dbfa945af6409b4
>
> Please let me know your thoughts?
Ah... yeah ok, looks like you *do* want to use a range. Luckily AR
sup
On 11/10/2009, at 9:46 AM, Enrico Teotti wrote:
> This is the updated list on the wiki:
> Presentations
>
>* Chris Lloyd — The pub at the end of the universe.
>* Enrico Teotti - KravMaga CMS, Identify the threat, neutralize
> it, scanning...
>
> Lightning Talks
>
>* Richard Heycock —
On 10/10/2009, at 4:23 PM, Daniel Bush wrote:
> On the google roro list occasionally you get people organising a
> jelly session.
> But I think the idea there was to get people who work from home into
> a situation where they can interact and maybe bounce off eachother a
> little. So I don
On 07/10/2009, at 9:08 AM, Lawrence Pit wrote:
> Both these queries will suck if you have loads of articles, as the
> function use of +date+ will prohibit the use of an index on
> created_at.
>
> Use the BETWEEN ... AND ... syntax instead, using beginning and end of
> day of local time convert
> I have some code here:
>
> http://github.com/cjwoodward/proper_time_zones
>
> I have removed a bunch of other tests but I'd be interested to get the
> one test working.
>
> To test it get the code out and run bacon test.rb
>
> Then change the system time to 7am and re-run the tests.
>
> I'd love
> Are there plans for a Stack Exchange clone (either existing software
> downloaded, or hacked at the camp) for the railscamp web 0.2
> experience?
There are plans if you make them! ;) Railscamp is a DIY event.
I like the idea, I say set one up.
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On 13/09/2009, at 10:34 PM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>> Previously I've taken screen-shots of the syntax highlighting done
>> by my
>> editor (vim), and included the images in my presentation (done using
>> Open Office Presentation), but this quickly gets unwieldy.
>
> Vim can export the current f
A reminder: the next RORO Sydney meetup is tonight!
We have 3 presentations tonight:
Me (Tim Lucas) - Coding your front-end for change
Mark Wotton - Hubris (Calling Haskell code from Ruby)
Richard Heycock - AMQP/EventMachine
We'll be holding it at the Trinity Bar, 6:30pm for 7pm.
On 03/09/2009, at 10:23 AM, Dave Newman wrote:
> Is the camera thing happening again? I can't make it, Gina's big
> launch party.
Yep, camera thing is happenin again :)
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> We have two people who have volunteered to give presentations this
> month:
>
> Mark Wotton - Hubris (Calling Haskell code from Ruby)
> Richard Heycock - AMQP/EventMachine
I'll put my hand up to present: Coding your front-end for change -
keeping your HTML, CSS and Javascript as nimble as you
On 23/08/2009, at 9:37 PM, Sharkie wrote:
> On the cards so far are the Spring Cycle [http://
> www.springcycle.com.au/] and the Gong Ride [http://
> www.gongride.org.au/]
>
> Got a favourite? Join us and we'll join you.
>
> Follow @rorot for details.
I'm down for the Spring Cycle too. Should be
On 23/08/2009, at 6:28 PM, Clinton wrote:
> Thanks to all those that came along to the hackfest. I had a great
> time and got a bit of coding done as well.
>
> To those of you who didn't come, you sure missed a lot of ordinary
> guitar playing. Maybe next time. I'm hoping that we can make the
On 01/07/2009, at 1:36 PM, Dr Nic Williams wrote:
> I am intrigued by Tim Lucas's CMS-by-Github approach. It was sweet.
...which was: give them access to github and let them edit haml files
directly via the github web interface. Git pull redeploy the site (or
just the markdown files) on post
On 23/06/2009, at 6:22 PM, Gabe Hollombe wrote:
> Very neat. Thanks for the heads up on this. Anyone from this crew
> going?
There'll be a few of us heading from AR HQ (Foveaux St, Surry Hills) @
5:30pm, feel free to meet us there.
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On 12/06/2009, at 3:25 PM, Michael A. wrote:
> So... what are your thoughts on HAML? Are there other major advantages
> I should know?
When it comes to markup languages I judge on brevity and clarity, I
don't think there's any inherent technical gotchas in either HTML or
HAML (though @bensch
On 12/06/2009, at 4:06 PM, Nigel Rausch wrote:
> Is there a haml2html & sass2css?
>
> Would be great to do the rapid dev in haml and then convert to html
> for designers to work on
Yep, the HAML command:
tlu...@tim > haml -s
%p Oh hai.^D
Oh hai.
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Yo.
Thanks for those that came along last night. It was a quieter meetup
than usual, everyone was probably still reeling from the long weekend
(note for next time snapperooby).
For those who weren't at Railscamp or the Sydney RORO meetup
Bananajour is a replacement for gitjour. It's a way
On 08/05/2009, at 1:39 PM, Lachie wrote:
> Would you be a dear and expound your cucumber re-ramblings for those
> not there on the evening?
>
> Your slides are brief but the ideas I can glean fill me with low
> level unease.
I just wanted to put it out there as an experience I had refactoring
o grab one for your someone special too.
So far we've sold 42 tees, which is around $350 for Engineers without
Borders. Be awesome to hit $400!
http://railscampteev3.agencyrainford.com/
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On May 4, 3:39 pm, Tim Lucas wrote:
> http://railscampteev3.agencyrainford.com/is now open f
alidations code:
http://gist.github.com/107555
Thanks to everyone who came! Was a great night.
-- tim
On May 4, 11:20 pm, Tim Lucas wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Just a heads up on all the wonderful things that will be covered
> tomorrow night at the Rails meetup.
>
> Seeing as David
Hey all,
Just a heads up on all the wonderful things that will be covered
tomorrow night at the Rails meetup.
Seeing as David Lee has piked I've slipped in an extra app, and Dr
Nic, from Dr Nic's academy of testing, will be demo'ing more of his
testing craziness.
** If anybody has a light
http://railscampteev3.agencyrainford.com/ is now open for orders!
You have until this the end of this Friday 8th May to put in an order
for an exclusive Railscamp Tee v3, complete with rockin ruby.
They're AU$20 (GST free) and all profits (after blank tee and printing
costs) will go to Engin
btw the meetup is on next Tuesday, May 5 (in cafe you missed the
subject line)
I've put myself down for a 3 x lightning preso combo: rethinking
cucumber stories, front-end first with AR validations, byjodiemcleod.com
-- tim
On 28/04/2009, at 6:58 PM, Jason Crane wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a
> Maybe it's now the time to put my 75 acres to use ... can grow a lot
> of relatively inexpensive food on 75 acres. Now, if someone could
> make it rain, we might all have a fighting chance.
You could can fit a helluva lot of interns on 75 acres.
Just sayin
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> if is_it_good?('apple')
> return it_is_awesome!
> end
Get rid of any "it_is" or "is" in boolean methods please.
empty? not is_empty?
So something like:
def respond_to_bad_joke
if @apple.good?
eat @apple
else
throw @apple
end
end
A real example would be much better.
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On 03/03/2009, at 6:26 PM, Ian White wrote:
> Looks awesome! Next time I'm in Oz, I'll steal some water and wifi.
Yeah mate that'd be awesome, but only if I can do the same when over
in the UK :)
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On 03/03/2009, at 2:39 PM, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald wrote:
> Hey dudes,
>
> I'm keen to come by. Mind if Belle pops in too?
Of course, partner's more than welcome!
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On 03/03/2009, at 2:09 PM, Torm3nt wrote:
> This sounds quite good, and I'm yet to be to a jelly. As far as co-
> working areas like this are concerned, what exactly is involved
> financially? What kind of facilities will this provide?
Basically there's a drop-in policy where, with notice, yo
On 03/03/2009, at 12:29 PM, Daniel N wrote:
> Congratulations lads... Bet it looks awesome...
Thanks Dan!
> Do you have a photostream of it available?
Not yet.
There's a handful of work-in-progress shots here:
http://flickr.com/photos/toolmantim/tags/agencyrainford
Will be sure to post to F
Mike has been busy slavin away on our new little office where we'll be
reinstating fortnightly Jellys as well as a coworking-esque drop-in
policy for those working inter-state or inter-continent for the day.
We're opening up the doors this Friday, all welcome!
We're on Foveaux St, just up fr
I woulda liked to go to WSG, and I know you would Jason... but I'm
guessing we're the only few.
On 25/02/2009, at 10:02 AM, Jason Crane wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just been informed that WSG is set for the same evening! Any
> objections to shifting roro back to the following Wednesday? the 18th?
On 13/02/2009, at 9:07 AM, Kim Pepper wrote:
> Thanks for the great presentation, Tim. Very cool.
No wukkas!
> I'm planning on using a mix of nanoc and sinatra for my next project.
> Your demo (and the one you did in December) makes it look all too
> easy.
Ah but it is. If you're going with Si
On 12/02/2009, at 9:33 PM, Ben Schwarz wrote:
> Last weekend gone I sat and had my first hack session with Sinatra
> (proper, anyway).
> I'll continue to tidy the project, as I'm now using it in production
> to monitor memcached instances.
>
> github.com/benschwarz/amnesia
>
> Its still ugly, but
Thanks to everyone who rocked out at the Sydney RORO meetup last night.
The slides for my lightning presentation on Sinatra can be found here:
http://www.slideshare.net/toolmantim/sinatra-1018962
If you want to learn more the docs are pretty rad and can be found at
http://www.sinatrarb.com/
Th
> Something totally awesome and epic?
Dan can do awesome, Lachlan can do epic, and I'll do short.
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On 29/01/2009, at 1:47 PM, Lachlan Hardy wrote:
> I'm happy to do a talk on YQL and the hotness it brings to your app,
> if anybody is interested?
yes plz.
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Amit Gupta has organised Chris Messina, Dave Morin and Guy Kawasaki in
a series of Jelly Talks:
http://wiki.workatjelly.com/Jelly+Talks
Unfortunately for us they run on US time which means 6am on a Saturday.
The first one is this Saturday with Chris and Dave.
If you wanna tune in the URL to
> Next Sydney meetup is scheduled for: Wednesday February 11, 2009.
>
> If you want to do a lightning talk about anything you've been working
> on, or just want to get up and talk, add yourself here:
>
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com.au/index.php/roro:Sydney_-
> _Topics_Confirmed
I'm down for a l
On 29/01/2009, at 12:07 PM, Clifford Heath wrote:
> For those of you who are free to choose where they work,
> and would like to escape the heat for a bit, I'd like to invite
> you to come to work here *tomorrow*. That seems nicer
> than just tweeting about how I'm coding in board shorts
> and ju
> There's an army of folks going from San Diego.
FYI I'll be packing my bottle of Sex Panther if you need.
I never leave home without it.
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On 08/01/2009, at 3:21 PM, Dave Newman wrote:
> I'm heading over to SXSW March 13-17. Just curious as to who's
> going and whether you've got any accommodation booked. I'm also
> doing this part of the trip solo, so it'd be much appreciated if I
> can tag along with a few peeps.
We (Mike
> Tim Lucas on ‘Staticish sites with Nanoc and/or Sinatra’
Mine will be two lightning presos, 5 minutes each...
1) Staticish sites with Nanoc and/or Sinatra
2) WWMD - Web-Wired Meta Directions
See ya Wednesday!
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On 02/12/2008, at 8:00 AM, Ian White wrote:
> How many talks are required? I've got one on offer, but talked last
> time, so will happily yield
but you're the guest! :)
I'll turn mine into blog posts... I was intending on doing that anyway.
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On 29/11/2008, at 5:44 PM, Jason Crane wrote:
> There's two and a half weeks! until the next Sydney roro meetup
> (cheers Dylan E) - so let's get rocking!
>
> If you want to do a talk, head on over to the wiki and put your name
> down and what you want to talk about:
>
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.c
Oooh RailsConf is more Railsy and more peeps, but Vegas is trashbag
and it's pretty close to SXSW.
RubyKaigi is Tokyo (!!!) and a bit more time from SXSW...
ooh the decisions... brain hurts.
I've done Vegas to SF road trip via Death Valley and Yosemite Matta,
amazing trip... you're gonna lo
On 20/11/2008, at 3:08 PM, Adam Salter wrote:
> Yeah,
> I definitely got the most out of the short talks this time around. But
> I agree that dedicated question time is good. I can't think of one
> talk last night where questions wouldn't have been necessary. (in fact
> for the comet demo in part
Yo yo.
Bigs up all the SA peeps which made it happen, I had an awesome time.
I've been talking about the number of people and I don't think that it
was necessarily too many just that I have too many friends there now
to collaborate and even get to have beers with them all, and also you
got
On 20/11/2008, at 10:44 AM, Andrew Grimm wrote:
> I was able to see from gitorious what projects there were, but there
> wasn't any ability to say "My project has passed 1.0, download it
> now!"
did you jump on twitter? That I think should be where everyone
announces their stuff, and then
On 20/11/2008, at 12:41 AM, Ben Askins wrote:
> I really enjoyed tonight's meetup, thanks everyone for presenting,
> participating, and heckling. Was very much fun indeed.
>
> Here's the slides from my talk on open-uri and hpricot
> http://www.slideshare.net/ben.askins/just-dont-moan-about-it-pre
On 01/11/2008, at 10:49 PM, Robert Postill wrote:
> Good for you. I also have decided to ruin my good looks with a lip
> ferret (my link is at ...
I just added a movember facet to faces:
http://faces.rubyonrails.com.au/facets
If you're doing movember log in and add your rego number!
-- timbo
On 27/10/2008, at 11:37 AM, Ryan Allen wrote:
> One little caveat, I forgot another little speaker.
>
> His name is Pete Yandell [1] and he's going to beat up Factory Girl
> with his new library Machinst [2].
>
> And that is all!
>
> [1] http://notahat.com
> [2] http://github.com/notahat/machinis
On 10/10/2008, at 11:12 AM, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> Thanks it was a great talk, enjoyed it for my first time (sorry I
> had to
> leave early - another commitment).
Glad you enjoyed the meetup! Always good to know what first-timers'
impressions are.
> Since then, I've learnt more about Rails
On 10/10/2008, at 1:47 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote:
> This is directly in response to "models shouldn't be coupled to
> whether
> or not your DB can save a record." Shit happens, abstractions leak,
> and
> people vote Republic. What can you do?
why, use my custom rspec matcher!
./script/plugi
Mock everything you're not specifying.
Discuss.
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On 10/10/2008, at 11:32 AM, Nathan de Vries wrote:
> For example, if you get a RecordNotSaved error when calling
> User#create!, surely you should be giving your user some kind of
> feedback other than "Something went wrong!" I know I'd much prefer
> to be
> told that my account wasn't actually
On 10/10/2008, at 11:30 AM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> Stories or integration specs should also cover everything else in
> the model,
> otherwise either your integration specs are incomplete or you've got
> model
> code that's unnecessary.
Agreed!
> "It's tested elsewhere" isn't a good reason
On 10/10/2008, at 10:32 AM, Chris Lloyd wrote:
> Testing the db just adds another layer which you can't control. If
> there is something wrong with your db it'll cause all your specs to
> fail, but not for the reason they should be failing. All the
> ActiveRecord db stuff has been already t
On 10/10/2008, at 9:19 AM, Seth Yates wrote:
> Thanks for the presso. Thought it was good fun. Great to see the
> innovation happening on rspec (now they just need to work on
> performance :-).
You're having problems with the performance of rspec itself, or this
more to do with DB activi
Hey all,
Thanks for everyone who came to the meetup last night in Sydney. I had
no idea we'd have so many new people come along so sorry if the preso
didn't include enough of the basics... but it's always cool to see new
faces.
Sorry to anyone who didn't know what to expect because of the
On 30/09/2008, at 4:42 PM, Hugh Evans wrote:
> Awesome, because you all might already know this but for those who
> don't Cucumber is set to replace RSpec stories in RSpec releases
> post 1.5:
>
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/166392
>
> So it will be really great, especially for those who n
On 30/09/2008, at 9:35 AM, Lachie wrote:
> For the record, I think this month's proposed topics are well within
> our scope, but please feel free to step up and propose (or even
> better) present something dearer to your heart :)
and for the record, when I say Cucumbers I'm not doing a talk on
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