Quinto

Quinto is based on the 1960s 3M board game of the same name, simplest to describe as a numeric version of Scrabble. This is currently the only known electronic implementation of Quinto.

Demo

A demo is available at: http://quinto-demo.jeremyevans.net

Setup

The server is written in Ruby, so the first step is installing Ruby.

After installing Ruby, install the dependencies:

gem install -g Gemfile

The server requires a PostgreSQL backend. It's recommended you set up an application specific server and database:

createuser quinto
createdb -O quinto quinto
for sql in sql/*-*.sql; do
  psql -f $sql quinto
done

You need to set the following environment variables:

QUINTO_DATABASE_URL :: PostgreSQL database connection URL QUINTO_SESSION_SECRET :: >=64 byte randomly generated secret

One way to set this is to create a .env.rb file in the root of the repository containing:

ENV['QUINTO_DATABASE_URL'] ||= 'postgres:///?user=quinto&password=...'
ENV['QUINTO_SESSION_SECRET'] ||= '...'

You can then run the server (via unicorn or another rack-compatible webserver):

unicorn

Tests

You can run all test suites using the default rake task:

rake

For the web tests, you need to setup a test database manually first:

createdb -O quinto quinto_test
for sql in sql/*-*.sql; do
  psql -f $sql quinto_test
done

Source

The most current source code can be accessed via github (http://github.com/jeremyevans/quinto/).

Author

Jeremy Evans (code@jeremyevans.net)