Feature: Completed all examples

[ThePomodoro]

Hi Jesse. I've completed the Panda, Tiger, Eagle examples. Please let me know how I did.

A couple of things:

1. I'm a bit unsure how to cope with the .idea file issue you mentioned. I'm guessing I'm pushing lots of supporting files used by my IDE to the repository, which must be annoying - could you help me with that by telling me how to get git to ignore them?

2. To complete the Eagle example I had to tell the Game.status method when someone had stood. So I called Game.status with a passed symbol, which was normally :unstood to indicate that no one had stood (forcing it to hide the cards). If Game.status was invoked from Game.stand, it was passed the :stood symbol, which told it that the game had been stood. Then it knew to reveal the dealer cards. However, all this meant that I had to change every method call to Game.stood, which seems inefficient and clunky.

What is a better way?

3. I tried to write an rspec test to ensure that the game stood for the player when the player bust. I thought that would involve setting the player_hand value to 21, and then hitting, and then checking that the game received 'stand' as a method call. Can't get it to work though. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Onward and upward! Thanks.

[jwo]

1. I'm a bit unsure how to cope with the .idea file issue you mentioned. I'm guessing I'm pushing lots of supporting files used by my IDE to the repository, which must be annoying - could you help me with that by telling me how to get git to ignore them?

Open your ~/.gitignore and add ".idea/" to it

2. To complete the Eagle example I had to tell the Game.status method when someone had stood. So I called Game.status with a passed symbol, which was normally :unstood to indicate that no one had stood (forcing it to hide the cards). If Game.status was invoked from Game.stand, it was passed the :stood symbol, which told it that the game had been stood. Then it knew to reveal the dealer cards. However, all this meant that I had to change every method call to Game.stood, which seems inefficient and clunky.

I generally prefer that a player can hit! or stand! -- at which point the game knows the current player who has control. So it would rotate through the players, then the dealers hand, at which point it would see who won.

3. I tried to write an rspec test to ensure that the game stood for the player when the player bust. I thought that would involve setting the player_hand value to 21, and then hitting, and then checking that the game received 'stand' as a method call. Can't get it to work though. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

What about stacking the deck to an order of your choosing (such as 10, 2, 10) and having the player hit? should bust, right?

[jwo]

I think you could not have the else block here.

Or, more in the language of the game:

if @player_hand.value > 21
  bust!
end

[ThePomodoro]

Just repushed. How's this? The only thing that doesn't work is that rspec
test, "player should bust after 21"

Best wishes,

Danny Bradbury
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On 10 February 2014 18:42, Jesse Wolgamott [email protected] wrote:

1. I'm a bit unsure how to cope with the .idea file issue you mentioned.
   I'm guessing I'm pushing lots of supporting files used by my IDE to the
   repository, which must be annoying - could you help me with that by telling
   me how to get git to ignore them?

Open your ~/.gitignore and add ".idea/" to it

2. To complete the Eagle example I had to tell the Game.status method when
   someone had stood. So I called Game.status with a passed symbol, which was
   normally :unstood to indicate that no one had stood (forcing it to hide the
   cards). If Game.status was invoked from Game.stand, it was passed the
   :stood symbol, which told it that the game had been stood. Then it knew to
   reveal the dealer cards. However, all this meant that I had to change every
   method call to Game.stood, which seems inefficient and clunky.

I generally prefer that a player can hit! or stand! -- at which point the
game knows the current player who has control. So it would rotate through
the players, then the dealers hand, at which point it would see who won.

3. I tried to write an rspec test to ensure that the game stood for the
   player when the player bust. I thought that would involve setting the
   player_hand value to 21, and then hitting, and then checking that the game
   received 'stand' as a method call. Can't get it to work though. Can you
   tell me what I'm doing wrong?

What about stacking the deck to an order of your choosing (such as 10, 2,
10) and having the player hit? should bust, right?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//pull/39#issuecomment-34721582
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[jwo]

man, these .idea files are the worst.