# A few questions before i start to programm **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 26, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-few-questions-before-i-start-to-programm/189204 "2010-05-26T19:17:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roelof)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-few-questions-before-i-start-to-programm/189204/1 "2010-05-26T19:17:36Z")
Hello, I want to learn ruby. As a learning experience I want to write a programm which people can put the results of games in a tournament. The programm produces which team is first and so on. My question is : 1. Are there any tutorials about making a menu and working space ? 2. Are there any tutorial about how i can check if a team has already played a game. 3. Are there any totorials about how I can sort the teams on multiple things ? Roelof ---
**Author:** ![roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roelof)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 10:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-few-questions-before-i-start-to-programm/189204/2 "2010-05-27T10:59:53Z")
Hello, Really nobody who wants to help ? Roelof ---
**Author:** ![roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roelof)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-few-questions-before-i-start-to-programm/189204/3 "2010-05-27T11:53:46Z")
On May 27, 9:33 am, roelof [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hello, > > Really nobody who wants to help ? I think you questions are a mixture of over vague and over specific, for example i don’t think you’ll ever find a tutorial for your second question as that’s quite a narrow question that depends quite tightly on how you’ll decide to store the team & tournament data. Your first question on the other hand is very vague. I think you should probably be looking for some basic active record tutorials (perhaps read some of the guides at [guides.rubyonrails.org](http://guides.rubyonrails.org)) before trying to find something more specific to what you’re trying to do. Fred ---
**Author:** ![roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roelof)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-few-questions-before-i-start-to-programm/189204/4 "2010-05-27T12:38:51Z")
Actually, the goal is trivial. Check out [Getting Started with Rails — Ruby on Rails Guides](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html) Install ruby, gem, rails, and start developing, ask questions as you go along. There’s no such thing as tutorial for a menu or working space. Checking whether a team has already played the game is a matter of your model. For instance, you have a model called Team, which has a boolean field called played\_game. So, you just get teams via Team.find, and include your condition, or just use team.played\_game and check whether it’s true or no. Good luck ---
**Author:** ![roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roelof)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-few-questions-before-i-start-to-programm/189204/5 "2010-05-27T13:40:54Z")
Alex P wrote: > Actually, the goal is trivial. > Check out [Getting Started with Rails — Ruby on Rails Guides](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html) > > Install ruby, gem, rails, and start developing, ask questions as you > go along. There’s no such thing as tutorial for a menu or working > space. > Checking whether a team has already played the game is a matter of > your model. For instance, you have a model called Team, which has a > boolean field called played\_game. So, you just get teams via > Team.find, and include your condition, or just use team.played\_game > and check whether it’s true or no. > > Good luck Hello, Thank you. I will read the gettting\_started tutorial. I like the idea of you. One question. How do I set the boolean field. My idea was to make a database of all the played games. Then read that database one or one if the user choose for making the rankings. I have he idea I have to read a lot to make this idea work. Roelof ---
**Author:** ![roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roelof)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-few-questions-before-i-start-to-programm/189204/6 "2010-05-27T14:23:43Z")
Hello, To make it more clear. What I have in mind is this: Make a application with a menu which contains a input choice and a rankings choice. If the user chooses for input the user gets a form so the data can be in the database. If the user chooses for rankings the followrig occurs. Every rule in the database is be read. Then there is a check if the team has already played a game. If so, then the data will changed . If not, team is added to a array and the data willbe changed. After that the data will be sorted so the best team is displayed first and so on. Database will look like this : Home team Away team Score home team Score away team. Array looks like this : Team Played games game points points made by that team points the other teams made in games with this team. example team A played 3 games, won 2 , made 50 , other teams made 20 team : A game points 2\*3=6 points : 50 points : 20 I hope it’s now clear what i have in mind. Roelof ---
**Author:** ![roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@roelof](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roelof)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-few-questions-before-i-start-to-programm/189204/7 "2010-05-28T09:26:58Z")
Well, it’s all quite simple. Create a model script/generate model team played\_game:boolean name:string and it will generate model and migration for you 🙂 Just get trough the tutorial. I guarantee, you’ll find all the answers. For your particular application it will work 100%