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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:55:42 -0500
From: David Chelimsky <contact@eventbrite.com>
To: "Hinze, Paul T" <paul-hinze@uiowa.edu>
Subject: WindyCityRails 2009 - PM Tutorial Information
Reply-To: "dchelimsky@gmail.com" <dchelimsky@gmail.com>


Thanks for registering for Behaviour Driven Rails with RSpec and Cucumber, the PM tutorial at WindyCityRails 2009! This tutorial will begin immediately following lunch, running from 1:00pm to 3:45pm.

This is a hands on, skills development workshop, so please bring your laptops and be ready to write some code. While attendees are not expected to be experts with any of these tools and techniques, you are expected to have at least a basic working knowledge of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, and Cucumber.

The following tools will be used during the BDD tutorial:

 *   git
 *   ruby 1.8.6
 *   rails-2.3.3
 *   cucumber-0.3.98
 *   rspec-1.2.8
 *   rspec-rails-1.2.7.1
 *   webrat-0.5.3
 *   spork-0.5.11
 *   ZenTest-4.1.4

Here is some _recommended_ (i.e. not required) reading/viewing:

 *   http://www.pragprog.com/titles/achbd/the-rspec-book
 *   http://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd
 *   http://dannorth.net/whats-in-a-story
 *   http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/18/skinny-controller-fat-model
 *   http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html
 *   http://railscasts.com/episodes/156-webrat
 *   http://railscasts.com/episodes/158-factories-not-fixtures

We look forward to meeting you at the tutorial.


-David Chelimsky and Corey Haines

dchelimsky@gmail.com

coreyhaines@gmail.com

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