Big Nerf Guns + Ruby and Let’s talk about testing - Justin Herrick and Tan Tran

Big Nerf Guns and Ruby
The Amazon Dash Button + Ruby + and a Big Nerf Gun. Learn how to use hack an Amazon Dash button to trigger ruby code, in this case, to fire a nerf gun controlled by a raspberry pi.

Lets talk about Testing
We all know the acronyms (TDD, BDD, DIC, CI, etc), but sometimes I worry we lose sight of the meaning behind it all. It’s time to talk about testing patterns and paradigms by focusing first on the basics and working our way up from there. Why do we test? What do these acronyms mean and how many of them do we need? What is test fragility and why is 100% code coverage so hard to maintain? Are we even testing correctly? It’s time to find out.

Bio
Tan Tran is co-founder of GameSalad and it’s Director of Web Development. Somehow Nola convinced him to switch the company to Ruby on Rails and he’s been a fan for ruby ever since. (Sure! blame me! -Nola)

Justin Herrick is a developer, educator, and founder of the software consultancy Lunar Collective. He has worked for clients of all sizes building applications across multiple languages, including Ruby, C#, and Clojure. He loves learning new languages and tackling new problems, and is always eager to share with others.

Sponsors:

Space - by Capital Factory
Food - by GameSalad
Stickers and Meetup - by RubyGeekLLC