Mike Denomy and Johnny Boursiquot have been doing a great job organizing workshops and small talks as we continue to improve Boston Ruby Group project nights.

We’ve recently been dabbling with creating command line applications with ruby internally. You can do some really cool things with tools like GLI and Formatador with relative ease.

I presented some of our learnings to the Route 9 Ruby Group and recorded it. There were some great questions and discussion.

I’ve recently begun presenting an Introduction to Rails Workshop at BostonRB Project Nights. They’ve been a lot of fun and I plan to continue facilitating workshops at future project nights. We recorded the video from our last, remote session, and made it available on YouTube.

Hey, I’m @jmondo. I’ve been working at LaunchWare since February 2011. A year and a half later, I’m leaving LaunchWare to move out to the West Coast and explore the world of startups, dev, and… west coast. Before I go, I want to provide a retrospective explaining what it’s like to work at LaunchWare, what I’ll miss, and why I’m leaving.

At LaunchWare, we’ve been looking for the best way to locate an element on a page in an Rspec request spec. Sometimes there’s just no getting around asserting that one piece of content appears before another, like when testing sort options. We’ve tried a few things:

On Tuesday, April 23rd, I gave a brief lightning talk about our most recent experiences with Rails Engines.

There were some great talks and questions asked during the session. One question was “How do you identify components in your application that should be extracted to an engine?”

The Google bots will thank you for not duplicating content on the InterWeb.