Hi Eric, I would definitely be interested. I've been doing TDD in Rails and Ruby for about 1.5 years, and it's awesome! Unfortunately, Rails makes testing difficult sometimes, to say the least. I think the project idea is a must, or people will just get bored. Kevin Ball and I did a one-day hackathon last year, and it was a pretty cool little project. I don't think he did anything with it, so it might be a good candidate for the project. Let me know if there is any interest and I can ping him to see if it's alright to use, if you decide to go that route.
The Rails app was built to use the Twilio API to track how far people are away from an event, like a house party or a bus tour leaving using SMS (and possibly GPS). That way, if someone is running late, they can send custom or pre-defined messages to the organizers about their status so that everyone can plan accordingly. It was a neat little app. I love the idea of getting together with other testing enthusiasts. I'm in! I would say schedule one meeting first for an introduction, then figure out who is interested in continuing and how often they want to meet. Regards, - Adam On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Eric MacAdie <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was a Java developer, and I am now transitioning to Ruby and/on Rails. I > went through Code Academy here in Chicago to help me focus and become more > ingrained in the Ruby community here. > > A lot of the other students were new to development, so there were a lot > of things that could not be covered in detail. One topic that was skimmed > over was testing. I have mentioned that I would like to start an RSpec > study group here, and I would like some advice on how to go about it. (I > should probably call it a "Ruby Testing Study Group", but I first used the > term "RSpec Study Group", and it kind of stuck.) > > One possibility is to have some people go through "The RSpec Book", > perhaps covering a chapter a week or something like that. The disadvantage > is that if someone misses a week, they might be left behind by the rest. > > One person suggested meeting one a week, and perhaps for the first week go > over a chapter in "The RSpec Book", the next week having a hack night where > the group writes some tests for someone's project/app, and perhaps a third > week someone could give a lecture/Q&A about their thoughts on testing > (there seem to be a lot of strong opinions out there). > > Does anyone have any thoughts/advice? > > - Eric MacAdie > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
