Choose Your Own Adventure assignment submission

[codeblahblah]

@jwo The Book#complete_game? does not work in that it also gives the conclusion as selectable "option".
I.e. You have to be on the actual last page which has Page.create(conclusion: true,... before the loop exits.
Is that why the Eagle Assignment ask to:

1. Refactor so that the page doesn't have a parent -- instead it stores the id's of its options (option_a_id, option_b_id)?

[codeblahblah]

@jwo Essentially you're given a choice to "win"?
The game plays out as follows:
You wake up on a road. It's foggy and dampy. In your bag is 30 gold pieces and a bacon sandwich. Which do you choose?
your options:
[Go into the forest]
[Walk down the road]
What do you want to do? Enter A or B
[A]
Go into the forest
your options:
[Approach the campfire]
[Sit down to eat your sandwich]
What do you want to do? Enter A or B
[A]
Approach the campfire
your options:
[You're a winner. Get 30 gold pieces!]
[You're a winner. Get 30 gold pieces!]
What do you want to do? Enter A or B
[A]
ADVENTURE COMPLETE
You're a winner. Get 30 gold pieces!
Hope you won!

[jwo]

I'm not sure this is needed

[jwo]

I.e. You have to be on the actual last page which has Page.create(conclusion: true,... before the loop exits.

Yes, that's the way it is designed. If you ever reach a conclusion, the game should conclude.

Is that why the Eagle Assignment ask to:

1. Refactor so that the page doesn't have a parent -- instead it stores the id's of its options (option_a_id, option_b_id)?

No. I ask you to do that so that a page could have more than one parent.

[codeblahblah]

@jwo "Yes, that's the way it is designed. If you ever reach a conclusion, the game should conclude."
What I mean is that you also have to choose the conclusion as an option?
Example:
your options:
[You're a winner. Get 30 gold pieces!]
[You're a winner. Get 30 gold pieces!]
What do you want to do? Enter A or B
[A]

[jwo]

    puts "  - [#{book.current_page.options.first.content}]"
    puts "  - [#{book.current_page.options.last.content}]"

What happens if there is only one option in the book.current_page.options array?

[codeblahblah]

@jwo The first and last options are the same object.
At the moment nothing.
Ideally, the loop should be exited...i.e. check complete_game? and exit loop

[jwo]

1. You should probably add more options
2. If you only have 1 object, you could handle that case

[codeblahblah]

@jwo

1. I understand that more options means the game lasts longer.
2. I'm trying to figure out why #complete_game? does not exit the loop automatically. Regardless of the number of options since you're essentially on the next and final turn?

[jwo]

If you added something like this, it should work the way you want

until book.complete_game? do
  book = book.current_page.options.first if book.current_page.options.count == 1

[codeblahblah]

@jwo Not working. Results in an infinite loop on the first choice.

[jwo]

(It's your code, you'll need to make it work)

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:27 PM, drammopo notifications@github.com wrote:

@jwo Not working. Results in an infinite loop on the first choice.

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