- Not sure why they chose to disallow them here, but realistically #while loops are not commonly used in Ruby. Iterators such as #each or #map are far more idiomatic for Ruby. I still agree this is strange that they are not included here. The original allows all of Ruby https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior
- Obfuscating the class is intentional... you are being given a limited set of "sensors" with which to interact with the world. Those are intentional rules by which to play the game.
- The original game is plain old Ruby run in the terminal and has full access to #puts or #print
- I think the point is to increase the complexity of the api slowly for those new to ruby and or programming in general. Not to beat a dead horse, but in the original there is the notion of epic mode where you do have access to all the rules and can attempt to run the entire tower with the same code.
- Obfuscating the class is intentional... you are being given a limited set of "sensors" with which to interact with the world. Those are intentional rules by which to play the game.
- The original game is plain old Ruby run in the terminal and has full access to #puts or #print
- I think the point is to increase the complexity of the api slowly for those new to ruby and or programming in general. Not to beat a dead horse, but in the original there is the notion of epic mode where you do have access to all the rules and can attempt to run the entire tower with the same code.