[Chirb] Meeting Proposal

[Kris Hicks]

Hello,

I have a proposal for a Chirb meeting.

I'm using the Watir library (http://wtr.rubyforge.org/) as an automation
tool, packaging it as an executable and distributing as an internal
application at First American Title, where I work.  The executable is
created with Exerb (http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html), and includes
a Ruby interpreter and open-uri.  Upon execution, the executable contacts a
webserver (running Nginx/Merb/Thin) and downloads any gems that are required
to run the actual application from a source on the webserver.  The user is
then presented with a list of what automation tasks they have available to
them, they choose one, it downloads the automation task as a Watir script,
and they're off to the races.

I've talked with a few people about it and there seems to be a fair amount
of interest in a) Exerb, b) Merb, c) the basic premise of distributing a
barebones executable (running Ruby, no less) which is then built up
dynamically to run the automation script, d) using Watir as a sort of
end-user application instead of just as a tool for regression testing.

I can go to some lengths discussing this in a variety of different ways.
How the application was built, how it was then made to scale (it used to be
a self-contained executable), Merb, Watir, subverting the IT department of a
Fortune 500 company.. the list really goes on and on.

Thanks,

Kris Hicks
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