Week 3, Day 4

Today has gone really quickly. Our standup in the morning went smoothly as everyone was making progress throught the assignment. We rapped up really quickly and headed back upstairs.

My pair partner and I has focused today on placing ships on the board and making sure that when you place a ship over another one, the website wouldn’t crash. After some time we came up with:

get '/start_the_game' do
  @failed = false

  if params[:coordinate].nil?
    erb :start_the_game
  else
    coord = params[:coordinate].to_sym
    ship = Ship.new(session[:size])
    begin
      $board.place(ship, coord, :horizontally)
    rescue
      @failed = true
    else
      session[:size] += 1
  end
  erb :start_the_game
end

I have learnt something new today - how to rescue. So we start with a begin where we specify the action that we want to execute, if the execution is successful then we jump over rescue and else will be executed. However, if our begin action fails, the code under rescue will be executed and the else block will be skipped.

In the evening, we decided to go to a Ruby Meetup which was orignised by one of Makers competitors. I have uploaded a picture of all of us going there. To summarise, I didn’t find it very helpful and I am glad that I have chosen Makers Academy.

Good night.

Zhivko