Sean Cribbs, lead developer of Radiant CMS and co-founder of Lowdown gave a great talk this month called Story-Driven Development with Cucumber. Sean gives a great tutorial on how Cucumber works as well as the benefits that go along with story-driven development. I've posted the talk as well as his slides here for anyone who wasn't able to make it or would like to see it again. Sorry for the dark video; It's hard keeping it dark enough for a projector while bright enough to film our speakers.

I have great news everyone! Engine Yard has agreed to sponsor Charlotte.rb.

So if you're around on Wednesdays, stop on in, learn something new, or show others what you got.

Ben Scofield from Viget Labs was nice enough to come down and give a talk to us last week. His talk goes into detail about how some problem domains do not map well to traditional relational databases. He also provides a lot of alternative ways to persist your data using technologies such as Redis, CouchDB, and MongoDB to name a few. I've post a video of the talk as well as Ben's slides for anyone who wasn't able to make it out.

Mark your calendars, we'll circulate more details as the date gets closer. RSVP now.

Post Meeup Social

We'll be meeting up at Morehead Tavern after the hacknight. It's only about a mile from Enventys and I hear they have pool tables if anyone is interested. (location)