Anthony Eden is the founder of DNSimple and has been developing software for 15 years. Anthony spends the majority of his time writing Ruby code but also dabbles in other languages like JavaScript, Clojure and even wrote a bit of Java in his past (ok, a lot of Java).
Build and Test APIs with Ruby and Cucumber
Web apps are hot, web apps with APIs are even hotter. These days popular sites are opening up more and more of their functionality via web APIs and you should too. This talk will cover how to develop web APIs with Ruby, either using Rails or Sinatra. It will also cover how to test those APIs with Cucumber.

»Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid - all rolled into one format.«

»Cucumber, the popular Behaviour-Driven Development tool [http://cukes.info/], brought to your JavaScript stack.«

the usage format to get timings is something our continuous delivery experts recommended as well.

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Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid - all rolled into one format.