# Re: Trying to stir conversation in the rrobots community **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 27, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trying-to-stir-conversation-in-the-rrobots-community/58950 "2006-04-27T12:04:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trying-to-stir-conversation-in-the-rrobots-community/58950/1 "2006-04-27T12:04:55Z")
Hi Greg, well there was some talk about new feature in february but all in all you are right. This might be my fault, (at least part of) I was planing tournaments on a regular basis but was distracted by several - personaly more important - events. But nevertheless, if there is increasing interest in a new RRobots tournament we should realy be able to have one again. I would suggest the following: All who want to paticipate in the next tournament can send their robots offlist (I will provide an email address if we decide to follow these rules). I will run a one-on-one tournament of all submissions every day (if there are new submissions) and post the results to the ML. (this keeps the noise low on the ML and everyone is able to see if there is further tweaking necessary) The deadline for the last submissions would be 28-05-2006 so everyone has time to code a real killer 🙂 All submissions will be posted on the website allong with the results for everyone to learn from. After that I would suggest running a two-on-two team battle tournament with same rules for another month. Ok, everyone who wants a new tournament please speak up (either here or in the rrobots forum [http://rubyforge.org/forum/?group\_id=1109](http://rubyforge.org/forum/?group_id=1109) ) Everyone who may help to improve the web site or would volunteer to run the dayly matches should also contact me. BTW: is there a way to place dynamic content on rubyforge hostet sites? (maybe this is a stupid question, I just didn’t found it yet) cheers Simon ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trying-to-stir-conversation-in-the-rrobots-community/58950/2 "2006-04-27T17:00:48Z")
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 19:03 +0900, Kroeger, Simon (ext) wrote: > BTW: is there a way to place dynamic content on rubyforge hostet > sites? (maybe this is a stupid question, I just didn’t found it > yet) Nope, not yet… we’re trying to avoid that to help keep RubyForge nice and snappy. Yours, Tom ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trying-to-stir-conversation-in-the-rrobots-community/58950/3 "2006-04-27T17:10:24Z")
On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:03 AM, Kroeger, Simon (ext) wrote: > But nevertheless, if there is increasing interest in a new > RRobots tournament we should realy be able to have one again. Perhaps something that would be more maintainable would be to create an on-going KOTH\* server? This web application would allow anyone to sign up and submit their robots. Uploaded robots are then run against existing robots, and each robot gets its own ELO or Glicko-2 rating\*. That makes it so that anyone can sign up and start playing immediately. This is how some of the old Redcode things used to run - way back in the day. –Steve - KOTH == King of the Hill - I wrote BSD licensed Glicko-2 code, free for the asking ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trying-to-stir-conversation-in-the-rrobots-community/58950/4 "2006-04-27T20:40:10Z")
Hi Stephen, that would be great without a doubt, but I’m not able to provide an environment where i could run code from everyone and his dog _and_ have healthy sleep at the same time. $SAFE might be an approach but i think i remember somebody mentioning thats not really safe. (am i wrong?) At the moment it isn’t even reasonable save to assume that a robot did not cheat without looking at the code - $SAFE might be fine to ensure that, i just hadn’t had the time. cheers Simon ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trying-to-stir-conversation-in-the-rrobots-community/58950/5 "2006-04-28T01:22:42Z")
Simon, No blame to take - the game is great and a nice challenge, but real work always takes precedence. Thanks for the offer of the tournament, I’d love to participate. Any rules are ok with me, as this is all a learning experience for me. Greg