Wednesday at 6pm: Why Unit Tests Matter + Jekyll In July

[Michael Prendergast]

Hey all,

Wednesday (July 18th) at 6pm, we have two great talks lined up for you: Artur Malecki will be giving us a talk on Why Unit Tests Matter, and Xander Miller will be giving us a talk on Jekyll.

Here are the details:

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Talk 1: Why Unit Tests Matter, by Artur Malecki:

Artur will be talking about benefits of unit tests, how to write them correctly and how they help with proper code design.

Talk 2: Jekyll in July, by Xander Miller:

It's the summer so why not do something light and fun?

Jekyll is a light and fun framework for generating static websites. And it's written in Ruby! Jekyll was first released by Tom Preston-Werner in 2008. Tom Preston-Werner is most prominently known for his role as founder and former CEO of GitHub. Jekyll is fully integrated in to Github as GitHub Pages.

Jekyll is ideal for documentation of a software project, writing a development blog or maintaining a portfolio library. Presenting Jekyll will be Xander Miller. Xander is a dabbling rubyist. Xander has tinkered with and taught Ruby on Rails for about five years. Xander wishes his could get his code to be half as good as this presentation.

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Plan on attending? Please RSVP via the link below, so that our kind sponsors can plan accordingly.

--> https://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/dzvdppyxkbxb/

2. Agenda

The meetup starts at 6pm.

For the first 30 minutes, there will be mingling over food and drinks. :)

The talk starts after the mingling portion of the evening.

3. Space sponsored by Shopify

Another big thank you goes out to Shopify for providing the venue to host the meetup.

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that provides the tools to set up an online shop and sell anything online, on social media, or in person.

Shopify is hiring various positions as well, check out their openings here.

4. Drinks, Snacks and meetup fees sponsored by SpeedyRails

Big thank you also to SpeedyRails, who will be providing the non-alcoholic drinks & snacks for the evening, and for also sponsoring the Meetup fees!

SpeedyRails offers a cloud-hosting platform for Rails developers, with Canadian and US Datacenters, CDNs, plus add-on DevOps Support. 

And SpeedyRails is hiring a Full-Stack Developer, learn more about the position here.

5. Food and drinks sponsored by Fullscript

Big thank you to Fullscript, who will be providing the food for the evening.

Fullscript is an online dispensary platform that helps health care practitioners dispense professional-grade supplements, without the need to store and manage their own inventory.

And Fullscript is hiring for various positions, see the available positions here.

6. Plan on attending?

Please RSVP here to let us know so we can plan things out.

7. Call for speakers

We're always looking for speakers/topics. If you're up for giving a talk, please feel free to submit your talk proposal via the Ottawa Ruby Talk Proposal form.

Thanks, we hope to see you all there!

The Ottawa Ruby Team

P.S. If you’d like to attend on Wednesday, please do be sure to RSVP here:

--> https://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/dzvdppyxkbxb/

[Michael Prendergast]

Hi everyone,

Tonight (Wednesday) at 6pm, Artur Malecki (LinkedIn | Twitter) and Xander Miller (LinkedIn) will be giving us talks on Why Unit Tests Matter, and Jekyll in July, respectively.

• Mingling starts at 6pm
• Talks start at 6:30pm: Artur Malecki on Why Unit Tests Matter, and Xander Miller on Jekyll in July
  

• Space kindly sponsored by Shopify (they help you set up a shop to sell products online)
  
• Drinks and snacks kindly sponsored by SpeedyRails (they're a cloud-hosting platform for Rails developers, with a DevOps Support option) 
  
• Food kindly sponsored by Fullscript (they help healthcare practitioners dispense their supplements, without having to handle any inventory)
  

Details are included below, and also on the meetup event page.

If you plan on attending, please RSVP on the Meetup event page, so we can plan things out:

  —> https://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/dzvdppyxkbxb/

Hope to see you all there!

Thanks,

The Ottawa Ruby Team

P.S. Here are the details for the talk and meetup...