pjensen / govsgo

Rails 3 app for playing Go online.

Go vs Go

This is the source code for govsgo.com, a site for playing Go online with other players or against the computer.

If you find a bug in the site or have a suggestion please post it on the Issue Tracker or fork the project and submit a pull request.

Setup

Ruby 1.9.2 is required. If you're using RVM it should automatically switch to 1.9.2 when entering the directory.

Run the following commands to set it up. Note the Homebrew command to install GNU Go and Beanstalk. You may want to use a different packaging system or install them from the source.

bundle
cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
cp config/private.example.yml config/private.yml
rake db:create db:migrate
brew install gnu-go beanstalk

You can start up the server with rails s and run the specs with rake.

Background Process

In production, the computer moves are handled in a background process because GNU Go can take a while and we don't want to tie up the Rails process during this time.

If you want to test the background process, set background_process: true in your config/private.yml file. Next run beanstalkd and script/play_computer_moves. to start up the processes.

Credits

This site was originally created for Rails Rumble 2010 by Phil Bates, James Edward Gray II and Ryan Bates.