[Chirb] Meeting Proposal

[Josh Cronemeyer]

Kris,

Are you interested in giving your presentation at the July meeting?  If we 
play by the rules July 7th is our next meeting, but as it falls on the 
first day after a holiday weekend people might want to delay until July 
14.  So if you prefer that date we can make it happen.  If you weren't 
thinking July, let me know which month you want to schedule for and I'll 
put you on the calendar.

Josh Cronemeyer



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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,

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