Is it possible to make an online poker clock with ruby?

Rails
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I’m just starting to learn ruby and i wanted to set some projects for
myself the 1st of which is a poker clock running online,
but before i start trying to do it i would like to know if it’s
possible. I dont want to waste my time if it’s not possible at all.

Thanks.

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What’s a “poker clock”?

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A poker clock is used when people are playing real live poker games. the
Poker clock counts down in time till a blind goes up, A blind would go
up at a period of time set by the players. Sorry just to add a Blind is
an amount of money, It’s a poker term.

if you google Poker clocks you will see loads. but they are all download
ones. where you have to install them. i want to try make a web based
one.

Bill W. wrote:

What’s a “poker clock”?

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You could sure… but why? Why not just use an oven timer and be done
with it?

Otherwise, if your blinds are set and your time interval is set, just
use
Javascript and update the page periodically…

I mean you could use Rails, but I don’t see how it would make it
easier…

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Well i wanted to use rails because i’m trying to learn it. But if using
javascript is easier then I wont use Rails.

As a total beginner to Rails what would you suggest as a 1st project.

Philip H. wrote:

You could sure… but why? Why not just use an oven timer and be done
with it?

Otherwise, if your blinds are set and your time interval is set, just
use
Javascript and update the page periodically…

I mean you could use Rails, but I don’t see how it would make it
easier…

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On 10/17/06, Philip H. [email protected] wrote:

You could sure… but why? Why not just use an oven timer and be done
with it?

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that he wants to display the
clock on a big screen TV at his friend’s house, hosting it on his own
server so that it “moves” with him as the game rotates houses.

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Hi David,

David S. wrote:

the Poker clock counts down in time till a blind
goes up […] at a period of time
set by the players.

Thanks for the explanation. The answer is yes; you can do that with
Rails.
I’m working on something similar (not poker related, though). I’m using
the
BackgrounDRb plugin to furnish the background clock task. Google on
‘backgroundrb’ to get started.

hth,
Bill

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On 10/17/06, David S. [email protected] wrote:

Well i wanted to use rails because i’m trying to learn it. But if using
javascript is easier then I wont use Rails.

As a total beginner to Rails what would you suggest as a 1st project.

Actually I think a poker clock might not be bad. It’s not super
ambitious by any means…you’d likely get it done in an evening, and
it would be useful to you.

For the clock portion you’re probably best off using a Javascript
countdown timer. But you can still use Rails for part of the app.
Get a basic JS countdown that doesn’t have anything to input the time
or start it. It should be extremely basic, taking only the amount of
time as a construction argument. Then you can use Rails to get time
input from the user (in whatever format you want), and convert it into
a format that the JS timer can use. Then you output the page with the
timer configured and start it.

You might also consider using camping (a very lightweight Rails-like
framework) for this, because it’s so simple. Or you can use Rails :slight_smile:

Pat

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Well i wanted to use rails because i’m trying to learn it. But if using
javascript is easier then I wont use Rails.

As a total beginner to Rails what would you suggest as a 1st project.

Hrm… well, do something you are interested in that’s for sure :slight_smile: If
you
like poker… maybe setup a “poker event” web app… where you could
enter
the date time, the location, number (or list of) players, blind
structure,
payouts, etc. Then go really crazy and add in some general
party-potluck
features for who’s going to bring what type of beer… Kind of like an
evite.com, but for poker.

If it’s mostly the same group of people you play poker with, turn the
list
of players into it’s own database with statistics along the lines of
this:

http://www.cardplayer.com/players/results/Daniel_Negreanu/1185

You could really go crazy if you wanted. Might not be uber-practical,
but
you’d touch a lot of different aspects of rails :slight_smile:

-philip