There are lots of CLI tools for doing Advent of Code in Ruby. Why make another?
This one does a few things differently:
- It shows other people's solutions. This was inspired by Exercism's community solutions.
- It's geared toward leisurely solving puzzles across all years. You can use it for the competition in December, but I didn't build it with that in mind.
- It has a magically simple CLI, which mostly involves spamming the
arb
command. - It uses Git instead of a database to track the user's progress and current state.
gem install advent_of_ruby
In a directory where you want to store your solutions, run the command arb
and follow the prompts.
Here's a demo. (Not pictured: perusing other people's solutions for each part, 01_1.rb
and 01_2.rb
.)
advent-of-ruby-cli-demo.mp4
Shortcuts:
- Any command can be abbreviated with its first letter, e.g.
arb b
forarb bootstrap
. - Just
arb
is short forarb run
. arb help
shows a summary of each command.
- Downloads the input and instructions files for the given day.
- Creates a source file and a spec file for the given day.
- Downloads other people's solutions, from these repos:
- If both arguments are omitted, it bootstraps the next puzzle, i.e. the puzzle after the one that was last committed to Git.
- If only the day argument is omitted, it bootstraps the next puzzle of the given year.
- Opens all of the new files using
editor_command
inconfig.yml
.
- Runs specs for the given day.
- If specs pass, also runs the currently in-progress part (Part One or Part Two) of the given day.
- If you're seeing specs run when you want to run only the real input, or vice versa, add one of the following flags:
--spec
(-s
) runs only the specs. (To run only Part One or Part Two specs, in the spec file changeit
toxit
on the other part's example to skip it.)--real_part_1
(-o
) runs only Part One with the real input.--real_part_2
(-t
) runs only Part Two with the real input.
- Optionally submits the answer, via a prompt that appears if specs pass and the answer has not already been submitted.
- If both arguments are omitted, it runs the puzzle that is untracked in Git, if any.
- Commits new or modified solutions to Git.
- Shows progress (total and by year) based on the number of your solutions committed in Git.
- AoC-rb—this gem was originally based on it
- AocRb
- aoc-cli
- aocli
- advent_of_code_cli
- advent_of_code_generator
- advent-rb