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.

Sponsors

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If you are interested in sponsoring the Los Angeles Ruby Conference for 2012 please download the prospectus.

Proposals

for davetron5000

Submission deadline: December 14th, 2011 11:59:59 PM PST.

Voting deadline: December 21st, 2011 11:59:59 PM PST.

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  • 2 people liked this proposal.

    Tired of maintaining your one-off script that has now become someone's job to execute? Wishing you could easily create polished applications on the command line similar to git or cucumber? You'll learn exactly what makes a great command line application, and see how easy it is to accomplish in Ruby with just a few open-source libraries. After this, you'll have everything you need to create usable and maintainable command line applications that won't come back to haunt you.

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  • 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...

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    Status: Pending