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London Ruby User Group:Javascript Testing
Javascript Testing
Chris O'Sullivan loves testing, and it's been eating away at him that he can't test the javascript he writes for his rails apps. In this talk he'll be showing off how he finally worked out how to test this stuff and return to the shores of Testingland.

Review:
In this talk, Chris O'Sullivan introduces the issues he saw with his Rails development, Javascript, and how there is very limited testing. Chris introduces the changes that need to made before beginning Javascript testing (mainly that you don't view javascript as a necessary evil) and how you set up a Rails application for javascript tests.

Chris then gives a live demonstration of how to use NewJS to test a very basic application. The process looks extremely simple and straightforward for unit testing a javascript function. Chris also demos how NewJS can be used with a javascript function that works on data within the web page.

Overall it seems like Chris is introducing a very useful idea that all Ruby developers who use javacript within their projects should take into consideration. It will certainly produce more reliable, unit tested code before reaching the integration testing phase.
Review by David Mulholland
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ABOUT CHRIS O'SULLIVAN
Chris is a New Zealand Ruby on Rails developer living in London.
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ABOUT THE LONDON RUBY USER GROUP
LRUG is the London Ruby User Group; a community of ruby developers based in and around London. We meet up at least once a month; on the 2nd Wednesday of the month we have meetings with talks, demos and such-like and then we have pub-based meetups organised on an ad-hoc basis (roughly half-way between meetings).
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PODCAST JAVASCRIPT TESTING

This session took part at the LRUG Meeting, December. You can view the other 1 podcast here.
JAVASCRIPT & HTML5 PODCASTS
Russel Winder:Python is a High Performance Programming Language, High Performance Python
Russel Winder : 31st Jan 2012
View Podcast: Python is a High Performance Programming Language,
Chris Adams:What's been happening in Wordpress , What's happening in Wordpress
Chris Adams : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: What's been happening in Wordpress ,
Mark Mitchell:Wordpress Responsive Design, Wordpress Responsive Design
Mark Mitchell : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Wordpress Responsive Design,
Peter Westwood:Scaling WordPress, Scaling WordPress
Peter Westwood : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Scaling WordPress,
Dave Springgay :HTML5, Android Webview and java bridging, HTML5 & Android Webview
Dave Springgay : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: HTML5, Android Webview and java bridging,
Jonathan Anthony :Titatnium & PhoneGap, Titatnium & PhoneGap...
Jonathan Anthony : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Titatnium & PhoneGap,
Andy Richardson:Trends and Patterns, Trends & Patterns
Andy Richardson : 10th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Trends and Patterns,
Chris McGrath:I18n, I18n
Chris McGrath : 9th Jan 2012
View Podcast: I18n,
Joe Corcoran:Judge: Client side form validation for Rails 3, Judge
Joe Corcoran : 9th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Judge: Client side form validation for Rails 3,
Christian  Heilmann:Rethinking User Registration with BrowserID, BrowserID
Christian Heilmann : 13th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Rethinking User Registration with BrowserID,
 :Usable APIs, Usable APIs
: 12th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Usable APIs,
 :Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, HATEOS
: 12th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State,
Chris O Davies:Introduction to User Group and Heroku, Heroku platform
Chris O Davies : 5th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Introduction to User Group and Heroku,
Nicola Tassini:Deploying Java Apps to Heroku, Deploying Java Apps to Heroku
Nicola Tassini : 5th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Deploying Java Apps to Heroku,
John Beynon:The Why, What and How of Heroku, The Why, What and How of Heroku
John Beynon : 5th Dec 2011
View Podcast: The Why, What and How of Heroku,
OTHER JAVASCRIPT & HTML5 EVENTS
Official RNIB Accessibility Hackathon, Official RNIB Accessibility Hackathon
CONFERENCE (2 DAYS)
London, Saturday, February 11th BOOK NOW!
Russel Winder:Russel Winder's Python Workshop,  Russel Winder's Python Workshop
4 DAY COURSE. Featuring Russel Winder
London, Monday, February 13th
Damjan Vujnovic Coding Kata,  Coding Kata
FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Damjan Vujnovic
London, Wednesday, February 15th
London Ruby User Group:LRUG Feb Lightning Talks, London Ruby User Group
FREE EVENT: LRUG lightning
London, Tuesday, February 21st
QCon London 2012, QCon London 2012
CONFERENCE (3 DAYS)
London, Wednesday, March 7th BOOK NOW!
Elevate Events:Elevate Launch Event, Elevate Events
FREE EVENT: elevate-launch-event
London, Wednesday, March 7th
Peter Lubbers:Peter Lubbers' HTML5 “Fast Track” - IN NYC,  Peter Lubbers' HTML5 Fast Track Course
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Lubbers
New York, Wednesday, March 14th
Peter Lubbers:Peter Lubbers' HTML5 “Fast Track” - IN LONDON,  Peter Lubbers' HTML5 “Fast Track”
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Lubbers
London, Tuesday, March 20th
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