See wikipedia page for the history and rules of this beautiful game.
Being the glider my current avatar I thought it was time to write my version of Conway's Game of Life in ruby :)
This is the simplest implementation I could write of the game in ruby, it's not the best OOP code example but I think that while being written just for fun and quicky it's compact and clear.
Run the basic game in terminal with
ruby run.rb
Run them with
rake