{"id":50983,"date":"2013-09-23T19:19:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=50983"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:38:40","slug":"a-gaming-bots-constest-at-a-ror-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/a-gaming-bots-constest-at-a-ror-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gaming Bots Constest at a RoR Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/a-gaming-bots-constest-at-a-ror-meetup\/#Uniting_the_Belarusian_RoR_community\" >Uniting the Belarusian RoR community<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/a-gaming-bots-constest-at-a-ror-meetup\/#Want_detals_Watch_the_video\" >Want detals? Watch the video!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/a-gaming-bots-constest-at-a-ror-meetup\/#Further_reading\" >Further reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Uniting_the_Belarusian_RoR_community\"><\/span>Uniting the Belarusian RoR community<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>On September 14, Altoros organized a Ruby on Rails (RoR) meetup that took place in Minsk, Belarus (Eastern Europe). Attended by 80+ Ruby experts from the local dev community, the event featured several sessions on RoR, cloud, and other relevant topics.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ruby-on-rails-meetup-altoros-belarus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ruby-on-rails-meetup-altoros-belarus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51003\" \/><\/a><small>Ruby on Rails meetup in Minsk, Belarus<\/small><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>During the meetup, the participants had an opportunity to test their programming skills in a contest of <a href=\"http:\/\/codenjoy.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Codenjoy<\/a>, an open-source training gamification framework for developers. For the event, our team created a Ruby connector to this service. Developers that took part in the contest could write bots that were playing Tetris, a popular PC game from the \u201980s. The event was full of interactive talks and informal networking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Want_detals_Watch_the_video\"><\/span>Want detals? Watch the video!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><small>In this video, developers at Altoros are competing in Ruby Codenjoy.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g6cKUxud07Y\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Further_reading\"><\/span>Further reading<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-ruby-community-is-blooming-more-than-100-ruby-experts-attended-the-local-ruby-on-rails-user-group\/\">The Ruby Community Is Blooming: More than 100 Experts Attended the Local User Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/simple-fast-application-sinatra-espresso-padrino-goliath-rails\/\">Which Ruby Framework Is Faster, Sinatra, Espresso, Padrino, Goliath, or Ruby on Rails?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/ruby-on-rails-course-at-altoros-graduation\/\">Winter RubyGardens Graduation: Welcome, Eight New Rubyists!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><small>This blog post was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/author\/volha-kurylionak\/\">Volha Kurylionak<\/a> and edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/author\/alex\/\">Alex Khizhniak<\/a><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniting the Belarusian RoR community<\/p>\n<p>On September 14, Altoros organized a Ruby on Rails (RoR) meetup that took place in Minsk, Belarus (Eastern Europe). 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