Monthly Archives: June 2010

learning TDD through test-first teaching

By Sarah | June 14, 2010

In April, I spoke at the East Bay Ruby Meetup about Test-First Teaching both as a teaching methodology and as a path to learning about test-driven development.
Marakana kindly sponsored the recording of the talk. Max Walker did the video recording, production and and just posted it:

Another Ruby on Rails training at Marakana is coming [...]

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full text search on app engine

By Sarah | June 10, 2010

I just got back from Google-sponsored hack session at RailsConf. Google App Engine and JRuby combine to create some real awesomeness. I created an small app that uses some classes from Lucene (written in Java) with a Rails app (written in Ruby) to search text stored in the App Engine data store. [...]

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