[LRUG] Onwards and upwards, into 2011

[Chris Parsons]

Hey all,

I'd be very happy to do a talk on the 10th Jan on my lessons learned BDDing
a command-line gem.

I'm building a command-line tool as a gem at the moment that manipulates a
number of external services via SSH + HTTP. It's proved a real headache to
BDD, and I'd be happy to share some of the lessons learned. Brief summary:

- Firing up a sinatra app for your cukes that fakes the webservice you're
connecting to.
- How I'm testing the SSH connections, to keep it insulated from the outside
world.
- Getting the balance right between specs and cukes
- End-to-end is harder than you think.

Also if time will intro a few gems that make it all much easier:
- Party Resource: a library that sits nicely between ActiveResource and
HTTParty in terms of functionality and flexibility.
- Aruba: black box cucumber testing of command line apps.
- GLI: really easy command line functionality.

Will be there in any case this time round: look forward to seeing people!

Chris


On 28 December 2010 14:27, Jim Myhrberg <contact at jimeh.me> wrote:

>  If anyone is interested I could do a talk about my statistics
> collection/querying library: https://github.com/jimeh/redistat
>
>  <https://github.com/jimeh/redistat>It's been in use at my company for the
> last month now, collecting somewhere around 2-4 million data points per day
> without any hiccups.
>
> Additionally or alternatively, I could talk briefly about some of the work
> we've been doing the past two months with RabbitMQ, custom Ruby workers with
> failover and fallback, and how we've gone about to try to ensure not a
> single message pushed through RabbitMQ is ever lost or not processed
> properly.
>
> If anyone is interesting I'll prepare some material, otherwise I'm still
> planning on attending the January event, so see you guys there :)
>
>
> -jim
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 12:54, Murray Steele wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> The registration link for the January meeting (Monday Jan 10th) is now
> available: http://skillsmatter.com/event/ajax-ria/lrug-889/rl-311 Please
> go and register, and while you're there, have a think about what we might do
> and volunteer yourself.
>
> Also, for the Feb meeting, Skills Matter only have Monday the 7th available
> so we'll do it then.
>
> So to update on my last mail, Q1 of 2011 looks like this :
>
> January: 10th (still looking for an agenda)
> February: 7th (we'll do our 20x20 lightning talks, still need volunteers)
> March: 14th (we have plenty of time to work this out)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Murray
>
> On 17 December 2010 16:51, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hey all,
>
> As mentioned at the meeting on Monday the dates for the next couple of
> meetings are*:
>
> January: 10th
> February: 14th
> March: 14th
>
> That February meeting date might be problematic for the more romantic or
> Hallmark-inspired members of the group, so I'll ask Skills Matter if we can
> move it.  Obviously it depends on what dates Skills Matter have available
> for us, but a rough set of choices is available here:
> http://doodle.com/tuhqcshfhpyanqm5 (Previous Monday, following Monday or
> the Tuesday 15 or Wednesday 16th).
>
> In terms of content we're wide open.
>
> It'd be nice to get January sorted out as soon as possible before every one
> retreats to their caves to hibernate for the Winterval period.  Anyone up
> for it?
>
> February will be our traditional lightning talk evening.  If anyone's not
> been before we do it 20x20 style (20 slides, autotransitioning after 20
> seconds for a 6 minutes 40 seconds total talk time), so we need lots of
> speakers.  Usually about 7 or 8 of us will be enough to fill the evening.
>  Last year I put myself forward to do a talk on whatever the list wanted to
> hear about (I talked about Ruby Fibers).  Maybe someone else would like to
> fall on that sword this time?
>
> March is just a normal meeting.  Unless you suggest we do something wildly
> different?  It's probably about time we did another slightly ambitious
> technical evening.  Like a dojo or a kata or trying a ruby quiz or
> something.  Anyone up for that?  We can sort it out later on, just have a
> think yeah?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Muz
>
> * These are all mondays, obviously.
>
>
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