Oct 16: Rush! and Cucumber!

Posted by Gray Herter Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:32:00 GMT

No, it is not a night of progressive Canadian rock music! It's two great ruby talks, one on the rush shell by Nicholas Schlueter and another on cucumber, a BDD framework, by Chris Flipse.

RSVP with the pizza poll (whether you want pizza or not), so we know how much to get and how many are coming.

rush (http://rush.heroku.com/) as defined by the website is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files - everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby.

In this talk you will learn 2 things.

First we will go over some rush basics. Like globbing, search and replace, naming files, and processes.

Second we will add rush to common tools, such as, Rake, Sake, Textmate, Capistrano, and Thor.

The Cucumber talk will be: "a bit of a talk about Cucumber, which will be the replacement for the story framework in rspec." by Chris Flipse. Stay tuned for more details as they arrive, or just show up and be surprised.

The meeting will be held Thursday, Oct 16th at the FGM headquarters from 6:30 PM to 9 PM. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided starting at 6:30. The presentations will start at 7 PM.

Here is the address:
FGM, Inc.
12021 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 400
Reston, VA 20190

Ph.: Call 703.728.5012 (Xandy) or 703.727.1307 (Gray) and someone will let you in to the building

3 comments

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  1. new to the area said 5 days later:
    Is it possible to get to the meeting by public transportation?
  2. Gray said 5 days later:
    Yes, we are near the Reston Town Center. I am pretty sure there are buses that run from West Falls Church metro to there (metro buses that is).
  3. sutch said 6 days later:
    I live between the Falls Church Metro stations. If you want to save some time, I'm willing to swing by the West F.C. station and provide a ride to and from FGM.

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