Battle Buddies: Server Edition

This is the server for Battle Buddies, a full-day course made for Fuse Code Camp 2017 targeted at students grades 6-12. Currently, it is written in Ruby with Sinatra and thin.

To install

Make sure you have RubyGems installed: https://rubygems.org/pages/download

You should also have bundler installed: gem install bundler

Then,

1. Run ```bundle install```
2. Create a config.yml using the following template:

  ```
  ---
   environment: development
   address: 127.0.0.1
   user: user.name
   group: staff
   port: 8282
   pid: ./thin.pid
   rackup: ./config.ru
   log: ./thin.log
   max_conns: 1024
   timeout: 30
   max_persistent_conns: 512
   daemonize: false
   threaded: true
  ```
3. Replace "user.name" in config.yml with your system username
4. run thin start -R config.ru -C config.yml
5. Pray that it works

To run

Run thin start -R config.ru -C config.yml in your terminal. This should run the server on port 8282 of your localhost.

API

get /

Home page

get /game

Returns the board at the end of a turn

post /game Creates a game

post /game/start

Starts the game

post /game/turn

Posts a turn and returns the game state at the end of a turn

Takes the following body: 

    ```
    {
      action: [move, attack, block, wait], //wait, attack, and block not implemented yet
      direction : [up, down, left, right, none]
      player_id : [player_id]
    }
    ```

post /player

Creates a player and returns the generated id

Workflow:

Create game > Create player > Start game       > Submit turns

post /game  > post /player  > post /game/start > post /game/turn