Uplifting

Uplifting is an elevator simulator.

You can write your own script to control the elevators and move all the people to their floor as quick as possible.

Installation

Install the required dependencies with

$ bundle install

Usage

$ ./uplifting.rb elevators/sample_elevator.rb scripts/sample_script.rb

This command will run a sample script against a sample elevator. You can pass in different files to run your own script against your own elevator.

Playing

Write your own Elevator subclass in Ruby, along the lines of the code in sample_elevator.rb.

Or, write your own Script module in Ruby, along the lines of the code in sample_script.rb.

Then run the elevator code against the script and see how good the resulting score is.

Concept

Uplifting is based on 3 components:

• The script determines events, such as spawning a new person waiting for an elevator
• The elevator responds to events (such as pressing the button for a floor) and moves the elevator
• The engine runs the script against the elevator and computes the score at the end

A way of thinking about it is script vs. elevator: you can write a script to make life harder for the elevator, or you can write an elevator code to better adapt to a script. The engine allows interaction between the two and keeps track of what's going on at any given time.

Disclaimer

The code is still in the first phase of development, so everything (including the API) is subject to change without warning ;)