Last saturday we went to the Manchester Javascript Unconference organized by ThoughtWorks.
We presented few javascript spike we are working on at the moment for SuperDevs. I’ll will let you know when they are online.
Other talks covered node.js, testing javascript, performance and common patterns for client side javascript.
It has been nice to meet some of SuperDevs members and to see that a lot of people understood that Javascript is the next big “must-have” tool for the developer toolkit.
SuperDevs is the first real world Ruby on Rails project we worked so we are learning things on the way.
We started writing controller specs using the default template proposed which looks a bit like this:
After a while those specs became a bit hard to read and often a bit brittle. We are now writing them in this format:
As you can see it is based more on the actual use cases than the implementation improving readability and maintanability.
How do you write your controllers specs?
We’ve been live since august, and a lot has happened since then. We didn’t spend much time sharing our little successes and problems with you. We are going to use this blog to post about new features and maybe go deep into technical discussions about stuff like Ruby On Rails, Git, Javascript, Community building and so on.
SuperDevs was born when I (David Santoro) was working on a project for ThoughtWorks in Wales. As usual I try to pull my friend Ken Alex Fassone into my crazy projects. I am delighted he joined me on SuperDevs.
We are not sure what direction SuperDevs is going to take, we are deciding as we go based on what you guys think is needed. Your feedback and input gave rise to the Events and Groups sections; probably the next things we are going to work on are ways to make the use of SuperDevs a more social and daily activity.
Just one quick note about grammar errors: we are both Italians so please do not get too upset if we don’t get all the sentences right ;-)
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Write you soon,
David and Ken
