[Chirb] Calendar, June Meeting Ideas.

[Sean Corbett]

That sounds pretty awesome.  +=1

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Nate Kirby <natebkirby at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  All,
>
> So it looks like people would appreciate (attend) a session on June 2nd
> where some time was spent talking upon experiences discovered using
> BDD/Selenium with Rails.  Ryan is willing to act as a question answer,  and
> I might be able to present something useful on my own.
>
> How much time should I shoot for?
>
> I know chirb is into technical details, but the important things we found
> are more about high level strategy than technical details although I can add
> details for those uncomfortable with strategies.
>
> The outline would be:
>
> What is BDD?
> How does RSpec work (practical usage not internal)?
> How does Selenium work (with rails - once again practical usage not
> internals)?
> What is story runner? (I know David covered this in Oct last year - so
> this will be cursory)
>     Usage
> What did we find about BDD?
>     Duplication of effort
>     Mocks v DB
> What did we find about Story Runner?
>     Combine with Selenium?
>     Engineers response
>     Combinational complexity
> What did we find about Selenium?
>
> Then the final Unexpected result.
> *Ryan can ask me question (actually anyone can - but I reserve the right
> to say "I don't know") as the session proceeds?
>
> How does this sound?
>
> Blessings,
> Nate
>
> Nick wrote:
>
>  +1 for both too.
>
> -Nick
>
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> From: Eric Smith <paytonrules at gmail.com> <paytonrules at gmail.com>
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> +1 for 2D gaming in Ruby.  Actually +1 for both.
>  Eric Smith
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Josh Cronemeyer <
> jcroneme at thoughtworks.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Ok!  Now we have options!
> >
> > Up for grabs - June 2nd meeting -
> >
> > Volunteered talks:
> > -BDD tools best practices with Nate Kirby and Ryan Platte
> > -2D gaming in ruby with some guy
> >
> > I'm happy to save mine for the July meeting which according to the
> > webpage is a lightning talk session.  Or whatever.  Group, if you have
> > opinions, now is the time to share them otherwise the usual noisy minority
> > will make the decisions for you :)
> >
> > Josh Cronemeyer
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Josh,
> >
> > If you want me to present I can.  What I have might not take up a whole
> > meeting though.  Ryan's idea might be helpful.  Let's see if anyone else
> > chimes in about their experiences.
> >
> > I will be in town on June 2.
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Nate
> >
> >
> > Nate,
> >
> > Sounds like it would be a good topic.  Just to keep the focus of my
> > email though, I'm trying to line up a session for the June meeting.  Are you
> > offering to talk about this June 2nd?
> >
> > Ryan Platte wrote:
> > Nate, it'd be interesting to hear the story you mentioned. I'd love to
> > hear about what you learned.
> >
> > Idea: if you're uncomfortable making a big deal of it, I'd be happy to
> > present with you, asking questions, kind of like a 2-person panel format.
> > But again, I'd be interested in learning more no matter how you'd want to
> > present it.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Nate Kirby <*natebkirby at yahoo.com*<natebkirby at yahoo.com>>
> > wrote:
> > Josh,
> >
> > Those sound interesting, but if anyone has been using BDD, tools such as
> > RSpec, Story Runner, Selenium, Cubic Test or any other quality improvement
> > tools, it would be great to have a session where people talk about what they
> > have found to be best practices.
> >
> > We tried integrating RSpec Story Runner and Selenium.  The integration
> > was easy, but it created a workflow nightmare that we had to back out of.
> >  If others have stories about there experience it seems like such a session
> > might be very valuable.
> >
> > --
> > Ryan Platte
> >
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