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The Ruby Hoedown had a great second day of talks starting with “Building Games with Ruby” by Andrea O.K. Wright. I hope that she posts her slides as there are more links to libraries that help with Ruby game development than I can mention here. Ruby is so flexible and multi-purpose. Next up were a series of lighting talks, a few of which discussed testing. One lesson (that seems to come up over and over again especially when talking about scalability and performance) is don’t hit the database for your tests. Dan Manges from ThoughWorks had some very interesting material on the subject - check out his blog for more.

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