Way to rip my ideas straight out of head... Terj wrote: > Best Thing (or discipline) in my opinion, is Testing. I was completely > stunned/shocked/afraid when I first encountered the idea of testing > code. Now, I think it has instilled better practices both for my self > and for anyone who adopts a TDD/BDD methodology for their work. I still find this exciting because it's still a moving target - how to find the right balance? We've come from test/unit to rspec (unit testing views) to stories (cucumber), back to test/unit integration tests with shoulda, from fixtures to machinist and then I think I'm finding some middle ground there as well.
Of course that's just the tip of the iceberg, there's plenty of other libraries and methods (I have some crazy experiments with Expectations on the go) But of course the fact that you're thinking about automated testing is the real win, regardless of how you do it. > Best Idea (which then became the best app for me) is GitHub. > Seriously, who knew a distributed/shared SCM could be so...beautiful! I'm not one for worship, but GitHub has changed my life. Period. > Most inspiring and exciting thing that I learnt was testing all the > f****in time and javascript libraries(jQuery in particular) I actually enjoy writing JS now. > > Just my two cents! > > Cheers, > Terj > > On Jan 14, 4:54 pm, Pete Yandell <[email protected]> wrote: >> A few of us (myself, Mike Bailey, Ryan Allen, and Nick Marfleet) got >> together at SCT on Monday night, to plan another Ruby Nuby Night. We >> bounced around some ideas, and started making a list of topics worth >> including. >> >> As we were doing it, we realised something: we're not nearly as >> excited as we were 18 months ago (when the last Nuby Night was held) >> about what's happening in the Ruby space, or about working with Ruby. >> We feel like things have flattened out, there's less interesting >> innovation going on, and there are even a few potential shark-jumps >> happening. >> >> That said, there's still a lot of cool stuff out there, and we all >> think the roro community is full of amazing people. Given it's the >> start of a new year, now seems a good time to take stock, and harness >> the brains of those amazing people to work out how we can keep >> everyone involved and excited this year. >> >> So, for the next Melbourne meeting, we're only going to have one >> speaker, and I want to spend the rest of the time having a meta- >> discussion about the state of the Ruby world, and about the Melbourne >> roro group. >> >> I'm setting you all some homework in preparation for the meeting. >> Please come along having thought about the following things: >> >> 1. What do you think are the best things (products, tools, ideas, or >> anything else) to come out of the Ruby world in the past couple of >> years? >> >> 2. What are the most exciting and inspiring things you've come across >> in the past couple of years? This can be Ruby or non-Ruby, techie or >> non-techie...anything that's got you excited and motivated. >> >> 3. What are the up-and-coming things you're excited about this year? >> >> If you have any general thoughts about how we can improve the group, >> please bring those along too. >> >> (And feel free to discuss all this on the list in the meantime.) >> >> - Pete > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
