mapquest

http://maxjacobson.github.io/mapquest

A fun, elegant game to see how many countries you can name.

contributing

• fork and clone the repo
• bundle install
• head's up: one gem depends on you having a javascript runtime such as node on your system
• bundle exec guard
• visit http://localhost:4000 and check it out
• find or open an issue
• start hacking
• squash your commits and reference the relevant issue, then submit a pull request
  • this post by TJ Holowaychuk is a good explanation of the git conventions I want to try to follow

goals

design

• a clean map with all of the countries in the world, unlabeled
• a text box to type in countries as you think of them (case insensitive)
• when you match a country, it becomes labeled and you receive points
• the option to zoom in on the map
• a timer that starts when you start
• an option to tweet/facebook how you did

meta

• hosted on GitHub pages
• fun exercise in front end development
• create Issues and receive Pull Requests from friends

development diary

2013-11-01

Max here

• I've created a repository
• I've created a README
• I've switched the primary branch from master to gh-pages, which I'll consider the master branch for now so it will show up online at http://maxjacobson.github.io/mapquest
• I've created a simple jekyll site structure
• I want the site to be online at /mapquest but the local development server runs at / so I struggled for a little while with jekyll's baseurl configuration setting. This thread ultimately pointed me in the right direction.

2013-11-02

Max here

• I integrated guard to kind of emulate the rails asset pipeline for compiling Sass and CoffeeScript and serving the Jekyll site. Just run bundle exec guard and it does a whole lot of stuff.
• The weird thing about having a Gemfile in your Jekyll site is that it will be included in the compiled site as an arbitrary text file on your server unless you specifically exclude it in the _config.yml. So, for example, because https://github.com/mojombo/mojombo.github.io/blob/master/README.textile isn't excluded, this is online: http://tom.preston-werner.com/README.textile. Which is, I guess, cool for a README?

2013-11-03

Max here living the modular lyf

• Totally broke apart my layout to use Jekyll includes which are basically just rails partials
• Totally broke apart the css to use Sass imports

Max here adding lame gameplay mechanics

• lol this game sucks but it meets the definition of the word