Screencast: Coding Conway’s Game of Life in Ruby the TDD Way with RSpec

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Screencast: Coding Conway’s Game of Life in Ruby the TDD Way with RSpec By Peter Cooper / November 2, 2011 Recently, there have been many screencasts of people coding things in real time. Yesterday, Ryan Bigg released a video of him implementing Conway's Game of Life from scratch by reading through the 'rules' and then using RSpec to take a test driven approach to fleshing out the functionality. Ryan is a Ruby Hero and technical writer best known for being co-author of the recently released Rails 3 in Action (along with Yehuda Katz) which I'll be reviewing soon for Ruby Inside. But Ryan's also been getting into doing a little screencasting: If you can't see the video above, view it directly on Vimeo here. Ryan's technique is just one of many legitimate approaches but many of you will find something to pick up from this, especially if you're not familiar with test driven de...

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