Sticky Pig

[jamesdabbs]

Due on Feb 11 @ 09:00am

Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should understand:

• Using models to persist permanent state

  Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you be able to effectively use

• ActiveRecord to interact with data stores
• Using active record models along with other plain Ruby objects

  Details

  Deliverables

A repo (based on our class skeleton) containing:

• ruby play.rb should play a game of pig
• ruby leaderboard.rb should display the winningist players

  Normal Mode

• Add a model that tracks wins and losses for each player.
• Add an option to just print the leader board instead of playing.

  Hard Mode

• Make games resumable (players can quit in the middle, and start from where they left off when running the script later).

  References

• The in-class history example with Hangman
• Feel free to use my Pig implementation as a starting point (you do not need to implement Hog here).
• Refer to the ActiveRecord query interface docs.
• For context, you may want to read more about the active record pattern (the ActiveRecord gem being a Ruby implementation of that general idea).

[matthew-gould]

Uhhhhh... I can't get this to work. I can get names into the leaderboard... My implementation of the adding wins/losses wasn't working.

git@github.com:matthew-gould/PigHistory.git

[jamesdabbs]

I'm not sure if you've checked in the code you're working on / want me to look at. Do you mean this? What is Pighis?

This looks like a reasonable start ... now you need to look the Leaderboard back up after the game to update it. (A nitpick: use unless past instead of having an empty if branch.)

[matthew-gould]

Sorry.. I meant to delete that. That was my first attempt when I screwed up all the migration names/etc. What I was working on was actually in the pig file (which you found).

I wasn't sure how to get the losses recorded. I was going to put some code into the remove_losing_player function but I wasn't sure how to recall the "past" or leaderboard to tell it to update.

[matthew-gould]

Alrighty... I got a working leaderboard that prints for the winner at the end.

git@github.com:matthew-gould/PigHistory.git

I wanted to do something that would print like Leaderboard.order(wins: :desc).limit(5) or something, but apparently we can't do that?

[jamesdabbs]

Looks good to me (modulo some indenting discipline). What makes you say you can't do Leaderboard.order(wins: :desc).limit(5)?