[LUAU] [Fwd: HRUG Meeting Next Wed 8th March 6-8pm POST 302 - Sam Joseph on "Rails Tests Baked In"]

[Kevin W. English]

In case some of you are interested in this....

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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 <srjoseph at hawaii.edu>
To: 	honolulu-coders at yahoogroups.com, ICS Grads <uhm-ics-grads at HAWAII.EDU>
References: 	<439784D9.5040707 at hawaii.edu>



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****** H O N O L U L U * C O D E R S * M E E T I N G ********
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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


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