plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Oct 11, 2009

# The first method returns the first message I want to convey if the player is struck first by a monster.
# The sentence cuts short because the View returns the name of the monster. Shouldn't this 'message'
# method return the monster's name instead of having the view do it? And how would I go about doing
# that? I'd need to make an instance of Monster (which is stored in the session) available to this message
# method which exists inside a different class.
 
  def message
    if @firstAttack > 95
      "You were surprised by a "
    end
  end  
  
# What if I wanted to also say in another message something like "You got lucky and hit for XXX damage".
# What's the best way to send that message to the browser without writing what seems like another
# one-time-use method such as "message2" based on another instance variable pulled from the
# fight(monster) method. Like, should I be declaring 'damage' as another instance variable and returning a
# separate string like "You got lucky" by checking the value of 'damage inside another method? That seems 
# very wrong to me.

# Here's the fight(monster) method just for completeness.

   def fight(monster)
     combat = Array.new

# This gives the player a 95 percent chance of attacking first
      @firstAttack = 1 + rand(100)

     if @firstAttack < 95
       turn_number = 0
     else
       turn_number = 1
     end

     while (self.alive? and monster.alive?)
       turn_number += 1

       # switch the roles of attacker and defender back and forth

       if (turn_number % 2 != 0)
         attacker = monster
         defender = self
       else
         attacker = self
         defender = monster
       end
       
       y = 1 + rand(5)
       x = 1 + rand(10)/y

        damage = attacker.attack - defender.defense + x
        if damage < 1
          damage = attacker.attack
        end
        
        if damage > defender.cur_hp
          damage = defender.cur_hp
        end

         defender.cur_hp -= damage

         # We'll only make a turn record for those cases where something actually happens
         turn = Hash.new
         turn["attacker"] = attacker.name
         turn["defender"] = defender.name
         turn["damage"] = damage

         #save this turn in the combat transcript
         combat << turn
     end
     
     if (self.alive?)
         # You lived and earned gamer points
         self.gamer_points += monster.gamer_points
       else
         # There are no penalties for losing at the moment
         
         end

       # We only save the user's record back to the database. The monster needs to stay
       # unchanged in the database no matter how much damage we did to it so the next one
       # we encounter will still be pristine

       self.save

       # Return the results of combat
       combat
     end
  

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Dec 2, 2009

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Dec 2, 2009

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Feb 3, 2010

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Mar 12, 2010

 
doc.css('episode link').each do |link|
     link.text
end

doc.css('episode title').each do |title| %>
     title.text
end

[{:link=>"/Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer/episodes/329033", :title=>"Unaired Pilot"},
{:link=>"/Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer/episodes/28077", :title=>"Welcome to the Hellmouth (1)"}, 
{:link=>"/Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer/episodes/28078", :title=>"The Harvest (2)"}, 
{:link=>"/Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer/episodes/28079", :title=>"The Witch"},

@myarray = []
@doc.css('episode link').each do |link|
@myarray << Hash[:link, link.text]
end

i = 0
@doc.css('episode title').each do |title|
@myarray[i][:title] = title.text
i = i + 1
end

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Mar 12, 2010

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Aug 23, 2010

class Game < Thing

  def mymethod(something)
    something
  end

end

Game.all

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Oct 20, 2010

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Oct 22, 2010

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Nov 2, 2010

m = Message.new
m.codeNumber

m.codeNumber = m.codeNumber

class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
  before_create :codeNumber
    
  def codeNumber
    self.codeNumber = generateCode  
  end
    
private
  def generateCode
    CODE LOGIC HERE
  end
  
end

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Mar 30, 2011

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Apr 4, 2011

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Apr 6, 2011

  def create
    
    if signed_in?
      @user = current_user
      @message = current_user.messages.build(params[:message])
      @messages = current_user.messages
    else
      @message = Message.new(params[:message])
    end
        
    if @message.save
      flash[:notice] = 'Your message was created!'
      redirect_to :action => "show", :message_url => @message.message_url
    elsif signed_in?
      render :action => 'users/show'
etc. etc.

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Apr 18, 2011

<thread dsq:id="12345">
  <id>foo</id>
 </thread>

<post id="177002220">
		<id/>
		<message><![CDATA[This is my awesome comment!]]></message>
		<createdAt>2011-04-02T19:02:04Z</createdAt>
		<author>
			<email>me@example.com</email>
			<name>myname</name>
			<isAnonymous/>
		</author>
		<ipAddress>192.168.1.1</ipAddress>
		<thread dsq:id="12345"/>
</post>

require 'nokogiri'

@doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.open("~/Downloads/disqus.xml"))

@doc.css("thread").each do |t|
    @t = t
    @thread_id = t.attributes["id"].value
      @doc.css("post").each do |p|
        @p = p
        @post_id = p.attributes["id"].value
      end
  
    if @thread_id == @post_id
      c = Comment.new
      c.code = @t.css("id").text
      c.author = @p.css("author name").text
      c.contents = @p.css("message").text
      c.save!
    end
end

plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Feb 12, 2012

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plasticbugs fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Mar 18, 2012