Announcement

LA Ruby Conference 2012

This is the fourth year for the LA Ruby Conference. Thank you for joining us.

Registration for the conference is now open.

February 2nd-4th, 2012
Holiday Inn Media Center
Burbank, California


Buy a ticket for Thursday workshop


Ruby Fundamentals or Maintainable Rails or Ruby Koans


Buy a ticket for Friday Workshop

Rails Fundamentals or Vital Testing


Buy your Saturday Conference Ticket

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Sorry for earlier confusion around the ticket purchases, you can now buy tickets for each workshop and the conference at the one link above.

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Presentation Proposal

  • Rubyists love testing, and test-driven-development is becoming THE way to write code. But, do we do this with our command-line tools? How DO you write a test that your awesome application cleans up its temp files? How does one make a failing test for a missing command-line option? What's the easiest way to check our app's exit codes?

    This talk will answer these questions with some real-world examples. We'll talk briefly about the challenges particular to testing command-line apps, and then dive into some code where we'll show off techniques for organizing code for testability, tools for interacting with the filesystem, and how to create full-blown acceptance tests for your command-line app. In no time, you'll be able to write your command-line apps the same way you write your other code: test-first.

    Status: Pending