Behavior/Test Driven Development (B/TDD)

• Test::Unit introduction to show how it is not easy to write/organize tests
• RSpec is great for writing unit tests
• Define unit tests( RSpec ) vs functional/Integation tests ( Cucumber )
• Write tests first or at least as you write the code

Continuous Integration

• Benefits
• HowTo

User Stories

• user stores and their benefit to the development process
• User Stories and writing cucumber tests
• Using Pivotal Tracker
• Product Backlog Management

Social Coding

• Benefits
• Using git and github
• Introduce social coding and its benefits as part of the craft of developing ruby applications

Team Dynamics

• Single Developer
• Pair Programming
• Large Team Decomposition

Refactoring

• avoid writing another language in ruby
• Improving code you just wrote
• turning good code into extensible code
• Input validation
• Custom Exceptions

Meta-Programming

• Go over the example of adding ActiveRecord like sugar to the data table syntax
• method missing
• class methods (define_exception)

Profiling

• introduce benchmark
• cover the simple example of converting 2 arrays into a hash

Static Code Analysis

• using reek to uncover code smells
• flay
• flog
• heckle

Example Applications

• Report Framework
• DataTable
• DefineException
• VR::Script written more generically