[Chirb] tools, already in play and coming soon

[David Chelimsky]

Hey Chirb,

I want to thank Nate for presenting his experiences with the Story  
Runner. It was good to hear about a team struggling through the  
problems and ultimately finding solutions and value.

I also want to thank you for sticking around for my follow up. I know  
I stuffed a lot into just a few minutes, but I was grateful for the  
opportunity to share some of the things I've learned since Story  
Runner's appearance on the scene. For those interested, the slides  
from my talk at RailsConf (of which you saw just a few) is at http://rubyurl.com/xtbQ 
.

During Nate's talk I mentioned a couple of tools: screw-unit and  
johnson. Both can be found at github:

http://github.com/jbarnette/johnson
http://github.com/nathansobo/screw-unit

At this point johnson is still incubating but I'm told that in the  
next month or so you'll be able to say something like  
Johnson.require('johnson/browser/ff') and you're running the js in  
ruby in memory w/ firefox's particular idiosyncrasies. Rinse, repeat  
with 'johnson/browser/ie' ... you get the idea.

screw-unit is an in-browser js unit testing tool modeled after RSpec.  
I just started using it but I really like it and it's getting some  
mind-share (so it's moving quickly).

Lastly, I may have mis-spoke about rails loading up columns from  
schema.rb - I'm looking into it and will follow up when I learn the  
truth. So Ryan - keep using unit-record for now :)

Cheers,
David