[Chirb] Meeting Proposal

[Sean Corbett]

+1 How the application was built
+1 how it was then made to scale (it used to be a self-contained executable)
+1 Merb
+1 Watir
+2 Subverting the IT department of a Fortune 500  (is +2 allowed?)

Sounds like it could be several presentations.  Anyone else with
Merb/Watir/Scaling experience who wants to add another talk and flesh things
out into several Chirb meetings?

-Sean Corbett

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Kris Hicks <krishicks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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