/game_of_life

Primary LanguageRuby

Introduction

A very simple implementation of Conway's Game of Life following the rules:

  • Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
  • Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
  • Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
  • Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

And implemented in plain Ruby.

Dependencies

  • Curses to make the generations evolve on the screen instead of simply printing out grids one by one.
  • Rspec for writing BDD style tests.
  • FactoryBot fixtures to make initialising data in tests more elegant

Running the code

Note: You need to have ruby installed on your local machine.

ruby app/game_of_life.rb

To run the tests simply write rspec in the root folder.