Welcome - The Ruby Game

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by instakill • 15 years ago

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jnotarstefano• 15 years ago

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?

petercooper• 15 years ago

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

gurkendoktor• 15 years ago

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

JonnieCache• 15 years ago

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.

darkphnx• 15 years ago

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

adamcooke2• 15 years ago

GitHub auth is now supported :)

danso• 15 years ago

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?

quandrum• 15 years ago

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.

extension• 15 years ago

Perhaps they should rerun with different input immediately after submitting.

mr_luc2• 15 years ago

"This code has already been submitted by catphish."

Is this by design?

mr_luc2• 15 years ago

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.

instakill• 15 years ago

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

rb2k_• 15 years ago

> This code has already been submitted by darkphnx

Ok, so I have to add random noise to my solution? O_o

anonova• 15 years ago

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

adamcooke2• 15 years ago

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.

anykey• 15 years ago

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.

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