<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Kris,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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 and I'll put you on the calendar.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Josh Cronemeyer</font>
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<br><font size=3>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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Thanks,</font><font size=3 color=#8f8f8f><br>
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