How do I continue tic-tac-toe game from saved yaml file? - ruby

Question

I have the following tic-tac-toe game: (I'm a noob, please disregard the design of the class, the game works, that's all I care about for now.)
#a tic tac toe game
class TicTacToe
require "yaml"
attr_accessor :player1, :player2
#crates playes and a game board to play tic tac toe
def initialize()
#player1 = Player.new("Player One", "x")
#player2 = Player.new("Player Two", "o")
#game_board = Board.new
end
#prints the board
def print_board
#game_board.board.each_with_index do |row, index|
puts "#{row.join(" | ")}"
puts "---------" unless index == 2
end
puts
end
#determines whose move it is
def move
if #turn % 2 == 1
player_one_turn
else
player_two_turn
end
#turn += 1
end
def valid_move?(row, col)
if #game_board.board[row][col] == " "
return true
else
return false
end
end
#player ones turn
def player_one_turn
print_board
puts "#{#player1.name} it's your turn:"
puts "Enter a row (0-2)"
row = gets.chomp.to_i
puts "Enter a column (0-2)"
col = gets.chomp.to_i
if valid_move?(row, col)
#game_board.board[row][col] = #player1.shape
else
puts "There's already a shape at that position."
player_one_turn
end
if win?(#player1.shape)
winner(#player1.name)
#winner = true
end
end
#player two's turn
def player_two_turn
print_board
puts "#{#player2.name} it's your turn:"
puts "Enter a row (0-2)"
row = gets.chomp.to_i
puts "Enter a column (0-2)"
col = gets.chomp.to_i
if valid_move?(row, col)
#game_board.board[row][col] = #player2.shape
else
puts "There's already a shape at that position."
player_two_turn
end
if win?(#player2.shape)
winner(#player2.name)
#winner = true
end
end
def win?(shape)
if (#game_board.board[0][0] == shape) && (#game_board.board[0][1] == shape) && (#game_board.board[0][2] == shape)
return true
elsif (#game_board.board[1][0] == shape) && (#game_board.board[1][1] == shape) && (#game_board.board[1][2] == shape)
return true
elsif (#game_board.board[2][0] == shape) && (#game_board.board[2][1] == shape) && (#game_board.board[2][2] == shape)
return true
elsif (#game_board.board[0][0] == shape) && (#game_board.board[1][0] == shape) && (#game_board.board[2][0] == shape)
return true
elsif (#game_board.board[0][1] == shape) && (#game_board.board[1][1] == shape) && (#game_board.board[2][1] == shape)
return true
elsif (#game_board.board[0][2] == shape) && (#game_board.board[1][2] == shape) && (#game_board.board[2][2] == shape)
return true
elsif (#game_board.board[0][0] == shape) && (#game_board.board[1][1] == shape) && (#game_board.board[2][2] == shape)
return true
elsif (#game_board.board[0][2] == shape) && (#game_board.board[1][1] == shape) && (#game_board.board[2][0] == shape)
return true
else
return false
end
end
def draw?
if #turn > 9
print_board
puts "The game ended in a draw. :)"
#winner = true
return true
end
false
end
def winner(winner_name)
puts "#{winner_name}, YOU WIN!!!"
end
def play
#turn = 1
#winner = false
until #winner
move unless draw?
save
end
end
#a class that generates an empty board
class Board
attr_accessor :board
def initialize
#board = [[' ', ' ', ' '], [' ', ' ', ' '], [' ', ' ', ' ']]
end
end
#a class that assigns creates plaers and assigns them a shape "x" or "o"
class Player
attr_accessor :name, :shape
def initialize(name, shape)
#name = name
#shape = shape
end
end
def save
yaml = YAML::dump(self)
File.open("save.txt", "w"){|file| file.write(yaml)}
end
def self.load
file = File.read("save.txt")
YAML::load_file(file)
end
end
game = TicTacToe.new
game.play
I want to start playing the game, quit the program in the middle of the game and then come back and finish it later after I call TicTacToe.load. However, when I do this now, the YAML file is loaded, but program does not resume where it's supposed to.
Can someone tell me if there is a way to do what I'm trying to do?

Answer 1

I regionally thought that doing something like YAML::load(self) would automatically load the save state of the file I was referring to via some kind of magic. However, I have come to learn that that the way that I designed my class and the dependencies in my "play" function would not allow me to load the previous state if my file.
When loading a YAML file, one has to load the file to a variable and then manually assign the object values to values of the class. That way, the current state of the variables are pretty much being manually assigned to the instance variables of the class. For example, I could have done something like this: file = YAML.load("file_name"), then assign variables values like: #board = file.board.
Had I known this before, I would have designed my class with less dependencies so that it would be loadable in a much cleaner and more convenient way.