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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The title of the talk is tentatively
set as: Merb, Watir and subverting the IT department of a Fortune 500 company..
:) Kris, let me know if you want me to change the title or the description
of the talk. (I just grabbed all those words from your proposal email,
so don't blame me). ;)</font>
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<br><font size=3>Josh,<br>
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The 14th works for me. <br>
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The way I was thinking of doing it originally was to run through the why
and how of its creation, and then how it was scaled. That would expose
the different pieces of it and how they were used, which could then be
used to figure out where people's interests lie for scheduling later meetings
about specific parts of it.<br>
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It's up to the group, really; I just need to know how to organize
my slides.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Kris<br>
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<br><font size=3>On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Josh Cronemeyer <</font><a href=mailto:jcroneme@thoughtworks.com><font size=3 color=blue><u>jcroneme@thoughtworks.com</u></font></a><font size=3>>
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Are you interested in giving your presentation at the July meeting? If
we play by the rules July 7th is our next meeting, but as it falls on the
first day after a holiday weekend people might want to delay until July
14. So if you prefer that date we can make it happen. If you
weren't thinking July, let me know which month you want to schedule for
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Hello,<br>
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I have a proposal for a Chirb meeting.<br>
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I'm using the Watir library (</font><a href=http://wtr.rubyforge.org/ target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://wtr.rubyforge.org/</u></font></a><font size=3>)
as an automation tool, packaging it as an executable and distributing as
an internal application at First American Title, where I work. The
executable is created with Exerb (</font><a href=http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html</u></font></a><font size=3>),
and includes a Ruby interpreter and open-uri. Upon execution, the
executable contacts a webserver (running Nginx/Merb/Thin) and downloads
any gems that are required to run the actual application from a source
on the webserver. The user is then presented with a list of what
automation tasks they have available to them, they choose one, it downloads
the automation task as a Watir script, and they're off to the races.<br>
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I've talked with a few people about it and there seems to be a fair amount
of interest in a) Exerb, b) Merb, c) the basic premise of distributing
a barebones executable (running Ruby, no less) which is then built up dynamically
to run the automation script, d) using Watir as a sort of end-user application
instead of just as a tool for regression testing.<br>
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I can go to some lengths discussing this in a variety of different ways.
How the application was built, how it was then made to scale (it
used to be a self-contained executable), Merb, Watir, subverting the IT
department of a Fortune 500 company.. the list really goes on and on.<br>
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