Thinking more about this, I'm not sure that I need this to be an A through Z course as such, but perhaps an opportunity to work on a live project (of mine) with someone fully versed in BDD and Rails best practices acting as a mentor and being on hand to answer the inevitable raft of questions.
Anyone up for something along those lines? On 5 Dec 2008, at 18:48, Jamie van Dyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi fellas, > > I haven't yet finished my training course, but I'll be writing up a > blog article (http://www.jamievandyke.com/) on it soon, hopefully > within the next couple of days. I intend to: > > 1) Start a new rails project > 2) Spec out a general user scenario (Cucumber + Webrat) > 3) Implement some unit tests and models > 4) Implement some functional tests and controllers > 5) Fulfil the specs in the features > > I'll post here when it's up, otherwise just subscribe to the news feed > and keep your eye open. > > I generally write my longer articles as though you've not done > anything to do with my subject before, so it should be easy to > understand. I'll also run through the thinking behind why I do and > don't do bits and pieces. Your feedback would be most welcome. > > Cheers > -- Jamie van Dyke > > > On 5 Dec 2008, at 17:11, John Jones wrote: > >> >> Please add my name to this too. I have used Rspec in one project but >> feel the need to spend more time getting my head around the >> differences (and benefits) between BDD and TDD. >> >> John Jones >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Andy Shipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> I'm new to Rails and certainly new to BDD. Whilst I have read (and >>> read, oh, >>> and read) about BDD in particular, it has become clear that I need >>> a bit >>> more of a structured approach to learning these skills. So, rather >>> than >>> banging my head repeatedly against a brick wall, I thought this >>> would be the >>> place to come to hear of any good, local to Leeds, training >>> programmes that >>> are out there. I've seen the earlier thread in the group on training >>> (between Paul Robinson and Jamie Van Dyke, in particular) and that >>> certainly >>> looks promising but I wasn't sure if that came to anything. >>> So, anyone out there offering this sort of training? >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Andy Shipman >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
