Presenting at RailsConf 2008

January 26th, 2008

I’m going to be presenting at RailsConf 2008 on RSpec’s Story Runner. I’ll be talking about how I approach writing for the Story Runner and address several related issues including:

<ul>
<li>plain text stories vs pure Ruby (when is which appropriate?)</li>
    <li>extending the RailsStory with custom helpers</li>
    <li>testing forms using <a href="http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/webrat">webrat</a> within the Story Runner</li>
    <li>finding a balance of domain and UI scenarios</li>
    <li>duplication between stories/scenarios and model/view/controller/helper examples</li>
</ul>


<p>That&#8217;s probably already more than I can cover fairly in a 45 minute presentation, but feel free to make other suggestions if you have them.</p>


<p>See you in Portland!</p>
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4 Responses to “Presenting at RailsConf 2008”

  1. meekish Says:
    January 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    That should be a great presentation. I hadn’t heard of webrat before. It’s looks pretty sweet. I don’t suppose you could do a write-up of using webrat with the Story Runner before May? ;)

  2. Josh Knowles Says:
    January 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Congrats David! If you’re looking to do a practice run we’re still accepting proposals for GoRuCo :-)

  3. Lindsy Says:
    January 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    I have wanted one of these forever! THANKS for the great work

  4. meekish Says:
    January 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Sweet, Ben Mabey wrote it up.