Welcome

This is Extreme Startup. This software supports a workshop where teams can compete to build a software product that satisfies market demand.

This branch is dedicated to DateTimeQuestions.

NB don't show the players the code for this project until after the workshop as otherwise they can cheat.

Getting started

Running unit tests (rspec)
- gem install rspec
- rspec spec
- specs are maintained in the spec/extreme_startup directory
Running feature tests (cucumber)
- gem install cucumber
- cucumber
- features are maintained in the features/ directory
For Windows users, to get colors in the console
install ANSICON from http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon/

Run the server on your machine. It's a Sinatra app that by default runs on port 3000.
Everyone needs a computer connected to the same network, so that they can communicate. Check that everyone can see the leaderboard page served by the webapp running on your machine. Depending on the situation, we have used a local/ad-hoc network and that is ok for the game.
We have had trouble with things like firewalls, especially on some Windows laptops, so if there are problems, make sure you can ping clients from the server and vice versa.
Warmup round: Run ruby warmup_server.rb
In the warmup round, just make sure that everyone has something technologically working, you just get the same request repeatedly.
Real game: Kill the warmup server, and run ruby web_server.rb. This will clear any registered players, but that's ok.
As the game progresses, you can introduce new question types by moving to the next round (hit the /advance_round url). Do this when you feel like some of the teams are making good progress in the current round. Typically we've found this to be about every 10 mins. But you can go faster/slower as you like. There are 6 rounds available.
Set a time limit so you know when to stop the game, declare the winner, and retrospect.
If you run this workshop, please let us know how it goes.

-- Robert Chatley and Matt Wynne 2011.

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features		features
lib/extreme_startup		lib/extreme_startup
public		public
spec		spec
utils		utils
views		views
.gitignore		.gitignore
.rvmrc		.rvmrc
Gemfile		Gemfile
Gemfile.lock		Gemfile.lock
README.md		README.md
intense_web_server.rb		intense_web_server.rb
moscow_web_server.rb		moscow_web_server.rb
ntnu_web_server.rb		ntnu_web_server.rb
player_x.rb		player_x.rb
player_y.rb		player_y.rb
riga_web_server.rb		riga_web_server.rb
riga_web_server_warmup.rb		riga_web_server_warmup.rb
warmup_web_server.rb		warmup_web_server.rb
web_server.rb		web_server.rb