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DesertCodeCamp: Saturday, June 13th, 2009

preston.lee — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:37:12 +0000

Just a reminder that Desert Code Camp is this Saturday, June 13th, at the DeVry University Phoenix campus. It’s 100% free and has content for pretty much all your popular languages, so developers and students don’t have much of an excuse not to go. You’ll want to register now and pick your sessions to make sure there’s enough space.

http://desertcodecamp.com

“Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community…Code Camps are always free for attendees…The success of the Code Camps is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided completely (including code) without any restriction. If you have content you don’t want to share or provide to attendees then the Code Camp is not the place for you.”

Catch Us At RubyConf 2008!

preston.lee — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:29:48 +0000

Wednesday through Saturday, November 5th-8th, Marc Chung (blog, twitter) and Preston Lee (blog, twitter) will be representing OpenRain at RubyConf 2008 in Orlando, Florida with two sessions on Hacking with ruby2ruby and Ruby Peer-To-Peer Development with Journeta, respectively. We’ll post status updates on our Twitter feeds periodically and would love to hang out with you! Each individual presentation will be posted sometime during or shortly after the conference.

Test-Driven Rails Development Lunch Session Tomorrow

preston.lee — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:48:58 +0000

Elite OpenRain ninja Remi Taylor will be presenting his approach to test-driven Rails development tomorrow afternoon at 1:30pm at OpenRain HQ. That’s Wednesday, October 8th for approximately 1 hour. All are welcome. No reservations required. Forecast: 99 degrees with a 90% chance of awesome.

You can grab the latest presentation file here. Remi’s synopsis…

Test-driven development has changed the way that many programmers design, write, test, refactor, and maintain their code. Myself included.

In this presentation, I’ll be introducing the concept of test-driven development and walking through the process of test-driving a typical Rails application.

This presentation is intended for Rails developers who:

are new to testing
have been testing, but not test-driving
have been test-driving, but not with RSpec
have been test-driving with RSpec and hope to learn a few new tricks :)

Along with writing specifications for Models, Views, & Controllers, I hope to cover:

writing user stories (acceptance tests)
creating custom RSpec matchers
continious integration using Autotest / CruiseControl.rb
testing JavaScript & AJAX