/Junethack

Junethack inter-server nethack tournament

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Junethack is a server for holding tournaments for the roguelike game NetHack and its forks.

This server collects data from several external public servers and show achievements and trophies for the participating players.

Requirements

Needed pre-installed software

  • ruby 1.9.3
  • curl
  • sqlite3

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/junethack/Junethack.git junethack

Install the Ruby interpreter. Example using RVM:

\curl -#L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
rvm install `cat junethack/.ruby-version`

Install all required rubygems:

cd junethack
bundle install

Start the server

rake

Archival of a finished tournament

Use httrack to make a static copy of the website:

# httrack http://127.0.0.1:4567 -O /tmp/junethack_mirror '-127.0.0.1:4567/archive/*' -%v --max-rate=1000000

# mv /tmp/junethack_mirror/127.0.0.1_4567 public/archive/2013

Edit the archive links to the previous Junethack tournaments in public/archive/2013/index.html. Also add a link to the the new Junethack archive in views/splash.haml.

Add and commit the the repository.

TODO: more documentation, distinction prod/dev env, maintenance mode, manually fetching games, dummy users