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How can Ruby change cities, states, and countries for the better? Last year, we saw an explosion of interest around government transparency. The Open Government movement, spearheaded by open source developers, seeks to make government more accountable and responsible by turning open government data into citizen-focused, civic-minded applications.
This talk will guide you through the Gov 2.0 landscape. You'll learn about the data sets and APIs available freely available for your use, the tools and skills you'll need to be a successful civic hacker, and you'll get a thorough overview of the current civic apps out there. Civic hacking will enhance your open source portfolio while making a difference in your community and country.
"This talk will focus solving difficult refactoring problems in a real world codebase. I will show actual code and demonstrate specific refactoring techniques to show how specific problems were solved. This is not a conceptual talk, and thus we will look at LOTS of real code. You've been warned!
In this session, we will cover the following:
Attendees should expect to learn core refactoring strategies and techniques, as well as techniques that can be frequently applied in refactoring web applications."
"Talk with be technology agnostic, so it will be a discussion of testing, and how to implement a testing workflow for a development team, including unit testing, continuous integration, how to deal with tests that will be broken during development of features and so on.
The talk will also include a demonstration of testing a sinatra application using rspec and cucumber, as well as demonstration of a Hudson system for doing CI."