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Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by instakill » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 9:07 AM UTC

Welcome - The Ruby Game
therubygame.com

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by jnotarstefano » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 1:21 PM UTC

I really loved this! I liked the fact that I could read other people solutions.

Is there an equivalent for Python, or any other language?

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by gurkendoktor » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 1:21 PM UTC

Interesting, but why require Twitter out of all things? I thought Ruby had the multi-auth thing nailed.

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by JonnieCache » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 1:45 PM UTC

gurkendoktor wrote: post #3

Interesting, but why require Twitter out of all things? I thought Ruby had the multi-auth thing nailed.

It does. It's trivial to use as well. https://github.com/intridea/omniauth

Why would you not hook this up to github for auth?

EDIT: The site is great by the way. My tone of disappointment at the authentication system is motivated by how nice the thing is.

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by danso » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 2:09 PM UTC

I'm a little slow this morning....the top solution is just a string? The submitter just did a fake entry to get the answer and then submitted a second one?

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by mr_luc » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 2:22 PM UTC

"This code has already been submitted by catphish."

Is this by design?

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by mr_luc » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 2:24 PM UTC

mr_luc wrote: post #6

"This code has already been submitted by catphish." Is this by design?

Also, if it's by design:

Placing a random comment after my submission lets it through. So you might want to strip out comments for that bit.

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by quandrum » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 2:29 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #5

I'm a little slow this morning....the top solution is just a string? The submitter just did a fake entry to get the answer and then submitted a second one?

They cheated. The page says all code will be rerun with different input at the end of the week to determine the true winner, so all the hardcoded answers will drop out at that point.

Though it seems this problem has an obvious fastest solution that has been found and mimic'd repeatedly.

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by instakill » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 2:32 PM UTC

Inject is a beautiful thing, and looking at the leaderboard, a lot of people seem to agree.

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Post by extension » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:38 PM UTC

quandrum wrote: post #8

danso wrote: post #5

I'm a little slow this morning....the top solution is just a string? The submitter just did a fake entry to get the answer and then submitted a second one?

They cheated. The page says all code will be rerun with different input at the end of the week to determine the true winner, so all the hardcoded answers will drop out at that point. Though it seems this problem has an obvious fastest solution that has been found and mimic'd repeatedly.

Perhaps they should rerun with different input immediately after submitting.