From b761017dc4fa7cf118393e739e799ce804646f7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Davey Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:14:42 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] Adding the robotwars markdown --- source/index.html.erb | 4 ++-- .../2014-11-26-robotwars.html.markdown | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 source/resources/2014-11-26-robotwars.html.markdown diff --git a/source/index.html.erb b/source/index.html.erb index 5af7059..59b5cbf 100644 --- a/source/index.html.erb +++ b/source/index.html.erb @@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ per_page: 10

Current Resources

<% page_articles.each do |article| %> -

<%= link_to article.title, article %>

+

<%= link_to article.title.capitalize, article %>

- <%= article.summary(100) %> + <%= strip_tags article.summary(100) %> <% end %> diff --git a/source/resources/2014-11-26-robotwars.html.markdown b/source/resources/2014-11-26-robotwars.html.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6712ca --- /dev/null +++ b/source/resources/2014-11-26-robotwars.html.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: robotwars +date: 2014-11-26 06:05 UTC +tags: +--- + +[Robotwars](https://github.com/ruby-meetup-resources/robotwars) gives you a virtual battlefield where you program an AI tank and pit it against your opponents. + +To run this for your own meetup, just point people to the github link above, all the instructions are on it. The tricky thing is setting up a server +to host the battles on. When we ran this in Christchurch (New Zealand) we also had a server [available here](https://github.com/danielfone/chchruby-robotwars-server) +however, it's not going to work out of the box. Other meetups have had success allowing people to just commit their tanks to a common repo and then pulling them in. + +If you happen to want to be a hero and the infrastructure linked to above, make it all Docker'y 'n stuff that would be awesome. However, as is it's pretty usable + +Here's a video of one of our battles. + +