Jan 2016: Mocking with Mockery, Intro to jq
Details
We have an excellent meeting lined up for you this month, with two presentations! John Ingram, CTO at RotoGrinders.com will present a mini-talk on jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/), and Ben Ramsey, one of our group organizers, will present on the Mockery mock object framework (https://github.com/padraic/mockery).
We are thankful for the generous support of this month's sponsor, RotoGrinders.com (https://rotogrinders.com/).
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As sponsors of this meetup, we'll also be happy to answer any questions you might have about the Daily Fantasy Sports industry. We're a Laravel PHP shop, but also friendly to other languages, and making heavy use of lots of Amazon services.
Introduction to jq, John Ingram
Can you jq? It's the perfect blend of fast JSON-parsing-and-manipulation power and the command-line mentality you've always had. Once you find that you can deal with JSON with jq, you'll be chomping at the bit for more JSON to deal with.
In this talk, John from RotoGrinders will demonstrate some jq tricks, using popular JSON services. Also expect some interaction, as we use our noggins and jq to parse and manipulate JSON together.
Mocking with Mockery, Ben Ramsey
Mockery is a mock object framework that may be used with any unit testing framework. It is a flexible and human-readable domain specific language (DSL) for mocking objects in unit tests. With it, we can create some pretty powerful tests and even test legacy code containing hard dependencies. In this talk, I’ll show how to get started with Mockery. I’ll start with some basic mocking techniques and then move on to cover more advanced topics, including static methods, partial mocks, final classes, and hard dependencies.
Ben Ramsey is a web craftsman, API enthusiast, and open source software advocate living in Nashville, TN. Passionate about the PHP community, Ben is the founder of Atlanta PHP and co-organizer of Nashville PHP. He has organized conferences, authored articles and books, and is a popular speaker at PHP conferences worldwide. Ben blogs at http://benramsey.com and is @ramsey (https://twitter.com/ramsey) on Twitter. His open-source contributions, including the popular ramsey/uuid library for PHP, may be found at https://github.com/ramsey .