Gameoflife

Problem Description

As a fan of games, I want to model Convoy's game of life, with game starting from initial life state so that I can return state of life after each iteration.

Requirements

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.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'gameoflife'

And then execute:

bundle

Or install it yourself as:

gem install gameoflife

Limitation

Throws error when memory limit exceeded.

Development

Prerequisites

RVM or RBENV. See respective website for installation instructions.
Bundler (>= 2.0.1). Install using gem install bundler

Setup

After checking out the repo,

Run rvm use or rbenv local to switch to the configured Ruby version for this project.
Run bundle install --path vendor/bundle to install dependencies.

Run Instructions

Run ruby lib/gameoflife/application.rb

Input Instructions :

Either use predefined patterns or custom input as follows

First input number (N) of live cells initially. Next N Lines, enter zero indexed row and column of live cells. Enter how many iterations(X) you want to view ?

Demo

Running Tests

Run rake spec to run all RSpec specs inside spec.
Run rake lint to run RuboCop linter.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

mkfeuhrer/game-of-life