New to ruby, I'm working my way through the pickaxe. A central strength of ruby is its comfortable "list processing" abilities & a grid of cells in a evolutionary scenario is just the right spot to get into this.
As you might see if you're looking through the history & branches / stashes, this is my sandbox for playing with my new toy ruby.
As I progress through the features of ruby, this implementation of LIFE evolves.
- Make it work - Make it right - Make it fast/clean
- right now it's in the "Made it work" state
- still missing some fudamental ruby skills
- error handling
- logic for computing the Conway evolution
- view to display the ticks/generations
- ascii representation
- graphical repr.
- oo data model
- exists in the
cleaner_oobranch- nice design but slows down the game by factor 2
- branch
master- rough / more procedural approach, but fast
- exists in the
- ui
- cli
- ruby-opengl
Check out the TODO.md for more details. If you feel like giving feedback - right on!