Ru-Sham-bo

Challenge friends to Rock-paper-scissors from anywhere! See if your favorite RPS strategy you learned from your cousin will get you on the top of the Ru-Sham-Bo leaderboard. Keep track of your Ru-Rank, win percentage and more. Battle to become the Ru-Sham-Bo Master!

Motivation

This project was first conceived a few years ago by my students in the MHS Byte Club. Students wanted to create a game with minimal logic that others could play. The goal of the project was to build community within the school with friendly, low-stakes competition. At the time, this project was VASTLY out of my ability level. After building it here, I intend to bring the numerous lessons I've learned back to create a copy with the help of my students.

It is those students that inspired me to make this project and to them it is dedicated!

Installation

Setup

1. Clone this repository to your local development environment.
2. cd into your ru-shambo director and run bundle install.
3. Set up your database by running rake db:migrate from the terminal
4. Run rails s to start up a server
5. Invite friends
6. Get Ru-sham-bo-ing.

Notes

• Google login will not function for your cloned workspace, but native user creation will work just fine.

Built with

• Cloud9 IDE
• Rails
• bcrypt
• Bootstrap-sass

Contributing

When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, email, or any other method with the owners of this repository before making a change.

Pull Request Process

1. Update the README.md with details of changes to the interface, this includes new environment variables, exposed ports, useful file locations and container parameters.
2. Increase the version numbers in any examples files and the README.md to the new version that this Pull Request would represent.
3. For now, I'll perform the merge after I review any pull requests.

Authors

• [Matt Farmer] (https://www.matt-farmer.com)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the students of the MHS Byte Club for inspiring this and many other projects. Thanks to Joshua Kovach for his awesome post on bi-directional self referential assocations, without which I would have been stuck on Sprint 1. Thanks to my family for letting me disappear for hours while I code! (3 hr > 1 hr + 1 hr + 1 hr)!

Current Working Issues

To implement a many-to-many self join, I utilized a strategy outlined by Joshua Kovach [here] (https://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2015/07/30/bi-directional-and-self-referential-associations-in-rails). This strategy has numerous benefits for the app, but I've also identified the following limitations.

• Two users may only have one active 'match'
• It is hypothetically possible for match collisions to occur if two users instantiate a match within seconds of each other, before each match's inverse has been created.