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Speaking at Red Dirt Ruby Conference

Posted by Marty Haught on Mar 04, 2010Comments

Following up on my RailsConf speaking announcement, I’ll also be speaking at the Red Dirt Ruby Conference in Oklahoma in early May. I’ll be presenting in the Rails 3 group on Active Record. I only have 15 minutes so it’ll be a challenge to pack all the new features into a quick (and fun) talk.

Testing Delayed Job email sends

Posted by Marty Haught on Feb 10, 2010Comments

On one of my projects, we are using Delayed Job to send emails when someone posts a topic to a forum that many users can be montoring. Delayed Job is fantastic but as part of our test suite we had been testing the output of the notification email. When introducing Delayed Job that made the testing aspect trickier.

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Speaking at RailsConf 2010

Posted by Marty Haught on Jan 30, 2010Comments

I will be giving a tutorial at RailsConf 2010. My tutorial will focus on using Lean Startup techniques with the Rails stack. The working title is “Get Lean: Slimming Down with Rails”. I think this will be a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to putting this together. I hope to see you all in Baltimore in June!