February Meetup Hackfest Ideas

[Chris Wanstrath]

Hey everyone,

Scheduled for the February meetup is a hackfest, a pretty open ended
concept. I thought it'd be cool if some of us planning to work on
projects announce our ideas so interested parties can chime in or take
note. We've got a four hour budget, remember.

Meetup details:
http://ruby.meetup.com/6/calendar/5380813/

Currently I'm planning to work on Cheat 2.0: adding tags to the wiki
and a --tag flag to the command line client to help organize /
discover new sheets. That, and test/specin' camping. Help most
welcome. Unless one of you is working on something cooler.

Let's hear it.

(Oh, by the way, I just posted an interview with the Lingr guys over
at SFRuby.org. They're local Rubyists and way cool. Check it out --
http://sfruby.org/posts/interview-with-the-san-francisco-rubyists-at-lingr
More interviews with local celebrities coming soon!)

--
Chris Wanstrath
http://errtheblog.com

[Zack Chandler]

> Scheduled for the February meetup is a hackfest, a pretty open ended
> concept. I thought it'd be cool if some of us planning to work on
> projects announce our ideas so interested parties can chime in or take
> note. We've got a four hour budget, remember.
>
> Meetup details:
> http://ruby.meetup.com/6/calendar/5380813/
>
> Currently I'm planning to work on Cheat 2.0: adding tags to the wiki
> and a --tag flag to the command line client to help organize /
> discover new sheets. That, and test/specin' camping. Help most
> welcome. Unless one of you is working on something cooler.

Sounds good Chris. I have a project in mind that I'd like to tackle
at some point but it requires hacking on rdoc which everyone
(including you I believe) has told me sucks...

Basically I'm up for whatever. I've never been to a hackfest before
so I'm a little unclear on how it works.

Zack

[Felipe]

I also don't know what to expect at the hackfest but I have been
working on a small pet/side project and want to play some either Watir
(a web app testing framework for ruby) or some drag and drop effects
with scriptaculous for it. I also worried constantly about optimizing
the SQL queries...

Also, just as a reminder to those that live in the peninsula... There
is another ruby meetup/hackfest this Sunday at Stanford! Here is the
link for that: http://ruby.meetup.com/82/

Best, Felipe

[eventualbuddha]

One patch on my to-do list is the one brought up by Zach in
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/XXXX. Both our implementations get
some things right, some wrong. I think this might be a fun one to work
on. If no one else is interested I'd be up for joining Chris in the
test/spec Camping world.

-bd

[eventualbuddha]

That's what I get for filling out the form on BART:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/7357

On Jan 26, 9:46 am, "eventualbuddha" <brian.dono...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One patch on my to-do list is the one brought up by Zach inhttp://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/XXXX. Both our implementations get

[Zack Chandler]

> On Jan 26, 9:46 am, "eventualbuddha" <brian.dono...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > One patch on my to-do list is the one brought up by Zach inhttp://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/XXXX. Both our implementations get
> > some things right, some wrong. I think this might be a fun one to work
> > on. If no one else is interested I'd be up for joining Chris in the
> > test/spec Camping world.

Yeah that would be a good one to hammer out. I'd also like to peak
over Chris's shoulder for some spec action as I haven't yet dabbled in
this...

Zack

[Chris Wanstrath]

On 1/26/07, Zack Chandler <zackch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah that would be a good one to hammer out. I'd also like to peak
> over Chris's shoulder for some spec action as I haven't yet dabbled in
> this...

Sweet. Maybe we can get some people together for a BDD demonstration
with test/spec.

[Zack Chandler]

On 1/27/07, Chris Wanstrath <ch...@ozmm.org> wrote:
>
>
> Sweet. Maybe we can get some people together for a BDD demonstration
> with test/spec.

+1. Count me in.

--
Zack Chandler
http://depixelate.com

[Coda Hale]

On Jan 25, 2:36 am, "Chris Wanstrath" <c...@ozmm.org> wrote:
> Scheduled for the February meetup is a hackfest, a pretty open ended
> concept. I thought it'd be cool if some of us planning to work on
> projects announce our ideas so interested parties can chime in or take
> note. We've got a four hour budget, remember.

I have some interesting ideas regarding how to make fixtures suck
less, esp. in the context of BDD/RSpec. I was hoping to get some
feedback on the general idea, and maybe start up a project for making
a releasable project. I've got working code for Rails 1.1.6, but it
hasn't been widely tested, and I hacked it up at like 5am a couple of
month ago.

(This would be the "make a plugin and see if people like it" stage of
trying to get rails-core to make fixtures suck less.)

See you all there!

--
Coda Hale
http://blog.codahale.com

[Josh Susser]

That sounds pretty interesting. I've been using Tom Werner's
fixture_scenarios plugin lately, and it helps with a few issue though
not all. I haven't yet tried the caboose awesome_fixtures plugin,
but it sounds kind of neat. Were you thinking of something along
those lines, or something as yet unheard of?

--
Josh Susser
http://blog.hasmanythrough.com