Ruby long star conference, day 1
This year I am attending to the lone star lone star ruby conference in Austin, TX.
My first day was very interesting. I took a cap from the hotel to the conference center, then some crappy food for breakfast and then some training:
First one: Test Driven Development. I think we have already heart about this and hopefully we/you are already testing your code. Perhaps you are just writing your tests after writing your code. With this method, you write your test code first, then you code to make the test pass and so on.
I found interesting when they talk about rcov, a tool to calculate the test coverage of your code. Basically it shows you statistics about how many lines in your code haven't been covered by your tests.
The second talk I attended to was: the ins and outs of ruby IOs. The talk was also very
interesting but not what I expected. I missed more technical details about how ruby
interacts with the OS and how we can really improve, if possible, I/O against the filesystem.
Nonetheless quite interesting. James is a great speaker and his slides where impeccable,
full of interesting examples. I'll probably create another entry talking more about this
once I'll watch the slides again. The keynotes for the second day are starting now ... fun!
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