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title: See you at RailsConf 2011!
teaser:
tags: news,web
author: Jason Morrison
published_on: 2011-05-13
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We're packing up our gems, our test suites, and our GIFs, and heading down to
Baltimore for the week.

Got a burning question about one of our [open source
tools](http://thoughtbot.com/community/)?  Want to chat about [managing
application copy and content with Copycopter](https://copycopter.com/),
[tracking and mananging app errors with Hoptoad](http://hoptoadapp.com), or
[planning and building your apps with Trajectory](https://www.apptrajectory.com)
?  We'd love to chat.

You can also catch Joe Ferris and Nick Quaranto at their talks on Wednesday and
Thursday:

Thursday at 1:50pm: [Cutting your own
RubyGems](http://en.oreilly.com/rails2011/public/schedule/detail/19572) with
Nick Quaranto:

> Diving head-first into RubyGems is rough: there’s a myriad of documentation
> sites, blog posts, screencasts, and manpages to read, and it’s tough to find
> “the” guide on how to publish your first RubyGem. In this session you’ll learn
> why making them is important for your Rails application’s maintainability and
> how distributing your code in gems even internally is helpful.

Wednesday at 2:50pm: [Testing The
Impossible](http://en.oreilly.com/rails2011/public/schedule/detail/19434) with
Joe Ferris:

> Dive into the internals of thoughtbot’s copycopter_client and discover how we
> test grizzly components such as: HTTP, SSL, Threads, Mutexes, Polling,
> Forking, Logging, Caching, and Rails Engines.  Also learn common strategies
> for testing applications that contain difficult-to-test components, as well as
> tools for regression testing, such as ensuring that your library will work
> across several versions of Rails.  Testing is a staple in the Ruby community,
> but there are certain small pieces of behavior that seem to be simply
> untestable. Trying to create complicated tests for only a few lines of code
> seems to be a waste of time, but introducing gaps in coverage leaves the
> entire application or library suspect. This talk will help you close those
> gaps and keep your coverage at 100% regardless of what ugly monsters rear
> their heads.