In this game, users are given a random set of letters, from which they must enter the longest English word they can find using only letters from a grid. This word is checked to be an English word by parsing a JSON file. The final score depends on the time taken to answer, plus the length of the word submitted.
- Access a web-API and parse JSON data returned by this API.
routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root 'games#new'
get '/new', to: 'games#new'
post '/score', to: 'games#score'
get '/result', to: 'games#result'
get '/show', to: 'games#show'
end
games_controller.rb
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
class GamesController < ApplicationController
def new
range = ("A".."Z").to_a
@letters = []
9.times { @letters.push(range.sample) }
@letters
end
def score
@guess = params[:guess]
@letters = params[:letters]
url = "https://wagon-dictionary.herokuapp.com/#{@guess}"
user_serialized = URI.open(url).read
user = JSON.parse(user_serialized)
@result = analysis(user, @guess, @letters)
redirect_to result_path(message: @result)
end
def analysis(user, guess, letters)
session[:past_wins] ||= []
if guess.chars.all? { |letter| guess.count(letter) <= letters.count(letter.upcase) } && user['found'] == true
session[:past_wins] << guess.length
"Congratulations! #{guess} is a valid English word!"
elsif user['found'] == false
session[:past_wins] << 0
'not an english word'
else
session[:past_wins] << 0
"Sorry, but #{@guess} can't be build out of the grid"
end
end
def result
@result = params[:message]
end
def show
@final_score = session[:past_wins].sum
end
end
git clone [email protected]:guavalines/rails-longest-word-game.git
cd rails-longest-word-game
rails db:create db:migrate db:seed:replant
bundle install
yarn install
rails server
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