VimGolf.com

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you? Head on over to vimgolf.com, pick a challenge, and show us what you've got!

Each challenge provides an input file, and an output file
Your goal is to modify the input file such that it matches the output
Once you install the vimgolf CLI, pick a challenge, open a prompt and put away!

When you launch a challenge from the command line, it will be downloaded from the site and a local Vim session will be launched, which will log every keystroke you make. Once you're done, simply :wq (write and quit) the session and we will score your input and upload it back to the site!

Setup & Play

$> gem install vimgolf

(Go to vimgolf.com, sign in, and grab your API key)
$> vimgolf setup

(Pick a challenge on vimgolf.com)
$> vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Playing from other editors

Emacs

There's a lightly maintained interface to play VimGolf challenges in Emacs over at vimgolf.el

VimGolf.com web app

# start local server
$> bundle exec unicorn -c config/unicorn.rb -E development

# deploy to Heroku
$> git push heroku web:master

Run tests

Go to the root folder and run bundle exec rake.

How to contribute

This part is for people not familliar with ruby ecosystem

Installation

You need :

ruby
gem bundler
mongodb
Seed database

ruby

You need a ruby version, same as .ruby-version

I recommend using rbenv, see https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv to install and manage ruby version.

cd $VIMGOLF_PATH
rbenv install

bundler

Bundler is a gem that aim to manage gem per project.

gem install bundler

Then you need all gems for the apps

bundle install

mongo-db

It is possible to get a fully functionnal mongodb instance through docker, see http://pierrepironin.fr/docker-et-mongodb/ for help.

docker pull mongo

# Database will stay here. So we can stop/delete docker instance
sudo mkdir -p /opt/mongodb/db

# Start container
docker run -p 27017:27017 -v /opt/mongodb/db:/data/db --name my-mongo-dev -d mongo mongod --auth

# connect to database
docker exec -it my-mongo-dev mongo

# create admin user
use admin
db.createUser({
  user: "userAdmin",
  pwd: "password",
  roles: [{role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin"}]
})
# exit

# connect to database
docker exec -it my-mongo-dev mongo 127.0.0.1/vimgolf_development -u userAdmin -p password --authenticationDatabase admin

# create vimgolf_development user
use vimgolf_development
db.createUser({
  user: "vimgolf_development",
  pwd: "vimgolf_development",
  roles: ["dbOwner"]
})

# create vimgolf_test user
use vimgolf_test
db.createUser({
  user: "vimgolf_test",
  pwd: "vimgolf_test",
  roles: ["dbOwner"]
})
# exit

# test connection
docker exec -it my-mongo-dev mongo 127.0.0.1/vimgolf_development -u vimgolf_development -p vimgolf_development --authenticationDatabase vimgolf_development
# we are connected, we can exit

Seed database

Read db/seeds.rb to understand params

# make the index page works - create collection "challenges"
bundle exec rake db:drop db:setup

# or add many challenges users and entries
bundle exec rake db:drop db:setup challenges=40 users=30 entries=20

Run the app

Start mongo-db this way if you are using the docker installation :

docker run -p 27017:27017 -v /opt/mongodb/db:/data/db --name my-mongo-dev -d mongo mongod --auth
# if you see:
# docker: Error response from daemon: Conflict. The container name "/my-mongo-dev" is already in use by container "a9
# then you have to remove the container
docker rm my-mongo-dev

Start the server

bundle exec unicorn -c config/unicorn.rb -E development

open your browser to http://localhost:8080/

If you need more logs, you can

docker logs -f my-mongo-dev
tail -f log/development.log

To see mongodb query :

# log to database
docker exec -it mongo-3.6 mongo 127.0.0.1/vimgolf_development -u vimgolf_development -p vimgolf_development --authenticationDatabase vimgolf_development

# Change profile level
db.setProfilingLevel(2)

# Call this after any query to get the last query
db.system.profile.find().pretty()

Troubleshooting

Cannot sign in with twitter

When click on 'sign in with twitter' and you get

OAuth::Unauthorized
401 Authorization Required

As a workaround, you can edit

# app/controllers/ApplicationController.rb`
# replace
    @current_user ||= User.where(uid: session[:user]).first if session[:user]
# with
    @current_user ||= User.first

Cannot run tests

If you installed mongodb through this tutorial, you created a database 'vimgolf_test' with user and password set to 'vimgolf_test'. You need to update config/mongoid.yml with the credentials :

test:
  clients:
    default:
      options:
        user: 'vimgolf_test'
        password: 'vimgolf_test'

Find documentation

It use gem mongoid which is a wrapper for the mongo driver

Mongodb ruby driver : http://api.mongodb.com/ruby/current/Mongo.html

Mongoid: https://docs.mongodb.com/mongoid/master

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