In this presentation Aldo Sarmiento discusses why he chose Resque Mailer for http://www.bigpurpledot.com and how he set it up. Hopefully, this gives some more insight into the ease of use that Resque Mailer provides and the pros/cons of it in comparison to other mailers.

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Aldo gives a presentation on why metaprogramming is … so .. meta

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This talk will focus on Behavior Driven Development in Rails. How to get the most out of it using Cucumber and Rspec, and how it compares to Test Driven Development using unit testing. It also goes over Steve's reasoning for doing Test-First Development as well as why he thinks BDD is better than simply TDD. He covers the specifics about the tools, pitfalls you may run into when writing tests, how to write proper tests, etc.

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In this talk Andrew De Ponte presents one of his latest projects, Octopus-CI. Octopus-CI is a continuous integration server that breaks the traditional model by supporting dynamic multi-branch job building. Octopus-CI is built on Sinatra, Redis, Resque and JQuery. It is used by RealPractice, Inc. to run their RSpec and Cucumber tests. Octopus-CI supports post processing a GitHub pushes.

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In this talk Andrew De Ponte covers some of the software dev lifecycles he has used in the past, their pros/cons, and why his team uses the lifecycle they are currently using today. The talk also covers the roles, duties, access controls, and policies used with Git, GitHub, Octopusci, RSpec, Cucumber, Capybara, and Capistrano to create what he believes to be an excellent software dev workflow.

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