Ruby Warrior - Game Emulation

Emulating the black box behavior allows us to build tests that prove your code works, as long, as the emulation remains close to the real thing. The Ruby Warrior runtime has features within it, that I do not know yet since I am still at level 7.

The output from my game emulator looks nice and allows me to great new alternative levels that exercise all the features of my player that I wish to.

GAME START
| ^     >|
|  ^    >|
|   ^   >|
|    ^  >|
|     ^ >|
|      ^>|
|       ^|
GAME OVER: ALIVE
GAME START
| ^ C   >|
|  ^C   >|
|  ^    >|
|   ^   >|
|    ^  >|
|     ^ >|
|      ^>|
|       ^|
GAME OVER: ALIVE
GAME START
| ^ S   >|
|  ^S   >|
|  ^S   >|
|  ^S   >|
|  ^S   >|
|  ^S   >|
|  ^S   >|
|  ^S   >|
|  ^S   >|
|  ^    >|
|   ^   >|
|    ^  >|
|     ^ >|
|      ^>|
|       ^|
GAME OVER: ALIVE

A simple rspec runner of these game layouts and a way to encode the game boards makes setup easy.

 describe "Game" do  
  let(:player) { Player.new }  
  
  it "plays empty board" do  
   game = Game.new("    >")  
   game.play(player)  
   
   player.should be_alive  
  end  
   
  it "rescues a sad caged pair of eyes" do  
   game = Game.new("  C  >")  
   game.play(player)  
   
   player.should be_alive  
  end  
   
  it "attacks some sludge" do  
   game = Game.new("  S  >")  
   game.play(player)  
   
   player.should be_alive  
  end  
 end  
   

The simple Game runner.

 class Game  
  def initialize(pieces)  
   @pieces = pieces  
  end  
   
  def play(player)  
   warrior = Warrior.new  
   warrior.board = Board.new(@pieces)  
   
   puts "GAME START"  
   while (warrior.alive? && warrior.on_board?) do  
    puts warrior.board.with_player_at(warrior.position)  
    player.play_turn(warrior)  
   end  
   puts "GAME OVER: #{warrior.alive? ? 'ALIVE' : 'DEAD' }"  
   
   warrior.alive?  
  end  
 end