Sessions at Madison Ruby 2011 about Ruby with slides

Friday 19th August 2011

• Free Whiskey

  In this talk I’ll discuss why in the world I would even remotely consider writing a(nother) capistrano replacement, how I justified it as an experiment with practical impact on our deployments, and how the experiment resulted in immediate payoffs. We’ll explore how looking at a problem of with fresh eyes changes the way we solve it. How insisting on doing the Simplest Thing That Could Work, and being religiously test-first (BDD) results in an incredibly fast and simple software. We'll discuss how we know when to add development overhead (git-flow management for releases, full end-to-end integration suites, formal issue tracking, etc.) as a project moves forward. Finally, we'll show you how to solve deployment issues you probably weren't even aware you had.

  • Behavior Driven Development
  • Deployment
  • Ruby

  At 11:30am to 12:00pm, Friday 19th August

  Coverage slide deck

• Scripting Vim with Ruby

  Vim has emerged as one of the premiere editors for Rubyists. This talk will teach you everything you need to know to take your Vim experience to the next level by extending Vim with the Ruby scripting interface. We will cover the Ruby interface's API and explore the power of customizing Vim with commands written in Ruby.

  • Ruby
  • Vim

  At 3:30pm to 4:00pm, Friday 19th August

  Coverage slide deck