Track Host: Ole Friis Østergaard, Trifork A/S

Ole is a software consultant doing all kinds of stuff at Trifork A/S. He is active in the local Århus Ruby Brigade and has been working with Ruby and Rails for a couple of years.

He has been a test-driven fanatic for several years. One of his spare-time projects is the Rails plugin acts_subversive.

Presentation: "Introduction: Programming tools"

Track: Programming Tools

Time: Friday 10:30 - 10:45

Location: Jan P. Syses sal

Abstract: Whichever language you prefer, having proper tools support is important for your productivity. Statically typed languages like Java or C# enjoy IDEs with lots of advanced features for helping the programmer type in the code. In a dynamically typed language like Ruby, creating such IDE features is a lot harder. However, advanced Ruby IDEs are finally becoming mainstream. We will have a look some of the most popular IDEs. When you cannot get your IDE to automatically create working code for you, test-driven development becomes a more natural choice for the development process. Thus, the Ruby world has been very keen on test-driven development, and the dynamic nature of Ruby allows for some interesting approaches to testing. We will be guided through a couple of frameworks that ease the testing process.

Presentation: "Versioning your data model"

Track: Advanced Ruby and Rails

Time: Friday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Lillesalen

Abstract:

Often, you need to version all or parts of your data model. Think Wiki pages, in which you need to be able to go back and see who made which changes to the pages.

This presentation will walk you through some very useful Rails plugins that enable you to do that, and a lot more. We will also have a look at what to version and what not to version.