Check out my command line version of the game Hangman built with Ruby!
This is a project from The Odin Project.
Open your Terminal/Command Line. Navigate to the directory where your version will live. Type in the following:
$ git clone https://github.com/JonathanYiv/hangman.git
$ cd hangman
$ ruby game.rb
- Script displays a hangman instructions and starting screen
- Script loads text file and gets an array via #readlines
- Runs a loop to ensure word length is 5..12 then randomly selects a word
- Script runs a loop to prompt for guesses and check for win/lose conditions while updating the gameboard
- Allow serialization at any point to save/load a game
class Hangman
instance variables:
gameboard
methods:
initialize
play: starts the game
instructions: prints the instructions
prompt_load: determines if creating a new game or pulling serialized data for a previously saved game
turns: starts the turn-taking loop while checking for win/loss conditions
turn: prompts the player for a guess and tells the gameboard
save: serializes the state of the game
load: loads a previously serialized game state to play into
class GameBoard
instance variables:
solution
guesses: an array filled with "_" or the guesses
methods:
display: shows the current state of the gameboard
display_gallows: shows the gallows in their current state based on # of incorrect guesses
display_guesses: shows the addition of correct/incorrect guesses below the gallows
update:
evaluate_guess: takes a guess, compares it the solution, and updates the guesses array accordingly
display: ^see above-
The hardest part was probably the file serialization process. I am still relatively unfamiliar with it and hope to get more practice going forward, although I know that -- in the long run -- databases are what will matter.
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Implementing the hangman game itself was very easy; it took me about an hour.
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This project is one of several games I have created for The Odin Project, and I am especially proud of this one because I feel it divides things into smaller chunks and feels more organized than the previous few.
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If I were to add more features, I would probably have the script display a list of saved games and their respective word lengths when prompted to save/load a game. However, my desire to keep pushing foward is stronger.
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All in all, this was a fun project that was low to moderately challenging, but very exciting in terms of using serialization to 'save' the state of the game.
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ALSO, for SOME REASON, even though I changed my Sublime Text 3 Tab Settings to make a Tab equivalent to 2 Spaces, when I upload to Github, it reverts to a full tab. Update: You can change the tab settings on Github directly. I will do it for future projects.
Check out my web application of the game Hangman built with Sinatra!
This is a follow-up project from The Odin Project.
The vocabulary and relationships of Sinatra are very confusing to me right now. I do not feel confident in my skills regarding Sinatra at the moment. I will still press onward though.
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There are very few resources on learning Sinatra on the web. This was the best one, an outline on GitHub of a variety of resources. In addition to the provided Odin Resources, these are other resources that filled in my gaps of knowledge:
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What is Rack? Various resources had mentioned Rack, Rack apps, Rack middleware, etc. So I wanted to know what it is. It's just a communication protocol between the server and the Ruby web application. The application respond to the 'call' method and take an environment hash as a parameter, then return an array with three elements:
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The HTTP response code.
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A Hash of headers.
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The response body, which must respond to each.
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I suffered from some strong procrastination urges during this project. I had to remind myself that breaking a large goal into a bunch of little goals is the best way to make progress.