MountainWest RubyConf 2012
2012-03-15..2012-03-16
Salt Lake City, United States
[MountainWest RubyConf 2007, MountainWest RubyConf 2008, MountainWest RubyConf 2009, MountainWest RubyConf 2010, MountainWest RubyConf 2011, MountainWest RubyConf 2012, MountainWest RubyConf 2013, MountainWest RubyConf 2014, MountainWest RubyConf 2015, MountainWest RubyConf 2016]
who it's for
ruby developers, web developers, backend engineers, software architects, data engineers, test engineers
topics
MiniTest unit and spec; random test ordering seed; serialize URL cache for tests; Pry live debugging and editing; Rack middleware builder pattern; Warden error recovery middleware; Sequel ETL transforms; star schema data warehouse; extracting gems and services; measurements with metric_fu and flog; refactoring via Ruby object pliability
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| MiniTest: Write Awesome Tests | Michael J. I. Jackson | 32m |
Argues that MiniTest cuts testing overhead by being tiny and readable and ships with Ruby 1.9 as a drop‑in for test/unit, so no big install. Demonstrates unit… | ||
| What's Wrong With Ruby's Object Model (And Why That's a Good Thing) | David Brady | 36m |
A messy procedural Ruby script that draws planner-sheet PDFs uses the Prawn gem, shells out to md5 for acceptance tests, and wraps File.open to allow stubbing… | ||
| Keeping your code strong | Jack Danger Canty | 32m |
Argues that project size, not per-file complexity, drives bugs and editing pain, with potential connections growing roughly as n(n-1)/2; offers three concrete… | ||
| Business Intelligence with Ruby | Xavier Shay | 30m |
Argues that small apps get big BI value by building a single star schema fact table as a single source of truth, loading it via simple ETL (even a nightly full… | ||
| Rack Middleware as a General Purpose Abstraction | Mitchell Hashimoto | 33m |
Argues that Rack-style middleware is a general abstraction that replaces sprawling classes and fragile mixins, demonstrated by Vagrant where commands compose… | ||
| Prying into your app's private life | Corey Woodcox | 14m |
Pry is a drop-in console that replaces irb in Rails with four lines and gives live access to a running app, letting the presenter open source with edit method… | ||
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