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Welcome - The Ruby Game

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Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

#11

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?

vimgolf is very similar, and has an interesting mechanic of not letting you see significantly better entries than your own.

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

#13

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.

The game actually uses omniauth for authentication. Github support may be in for next weeks challenge :)

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

#14
I really love this idea, and I want to compete but it appears the site is down, and I'm unable to submit solutions. I've been wanting a version of Vimgolf targeted at Ruby for quite some time, it's an awesome way to improve your skills and uncover great tricks.

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

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post #12

> This code has already been submitted by darkphnx Ok, so I have to add random noise to my solution? O_o

This is really lame, especially if elegance is part of the judging criteria.

a) this check only checked identical code so any more (or less) elegant code was still permitted.

b) we now don't check for this but "similar" code will be grouped together to make things easier to hear.

Re: Welcome - The Ruby Game

#17

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.

GitHub auth is now supported :)
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