steve-mcclellan/j-scorer

A web app for prospective Jeopardy! contestants to track their training progress.

The J! Scorer is a web app that makes it easy for prospective Jeopardy! contestants to keep score along with the show, and track their training progress via a bunch of different stats.

It is up and running on the web at https://j-scorer.com. Instructions for users can be found there, via the Help link.

See a sample stats page (and laugh at my actual stats!) here.

Screenshots

Developer info

The J! Scorer uses the following custom environment variables:

Variable	Description
SUPPORT_ADDRESS	The contact email address to display within the app.
SAMPLE_USER	(optional) The id of the user whose stats should appear on the sample stats page. (User.first's stats are used if this is absent.)
SAMPLE_USER_NAME	(optional) A string to display on the sample stats page instead of the sample user account's email.
PROPER_DOMAIN	(production only, optional) (e.g., j-scorer.com) If a request gets to the app from any other domain (or subdomain), redirect it to this one.
MAILER_DOMAIN	(production only) (e.g., j-scorer.com) The value of ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings[:domain]. (From the docs: "If you need to specify a HELO domain, you can do it here.")
MAILER_HOST	(production only) (e.g., j-scorer.com) The value of config.action_mailer.default_url_options[:host]. This is the base url for generated links in emails.

Contributing

A plea: If there's anyone out there with an eye for design who's willing and able to help make the app look less ugly, without sacrificing usability, please get in touch. I will love you forever.

Check out the J! Scorer Main Project to see what I'm working on and what I'm planning to get to soon. Send me an email at the address below if you'd like to beat me to something on that list. If you want to do something else entirely, fantastic!

If you're an experienced open-source contributor

You know the drill. Fork, branch, pull request, ???, profit!

If you're new to this sort of thing

• Check out GitHub's documentation for a good overview of the process.
• Get in touch with me at the address below. I love helping others do nifty stuff with code almost as much as I love doing it myself.

Contact

If you need any help, drop me a line at [email protected].

j-scorer's Issues

Changing a topic doesn't mark a game as dirty

• Open up a previously saved game
• Change the topics for a category

Result: The game isn't marked as dirty so the option to save the game doesn't appear.

A workaround is to change a clue's response state and then change it back. Then the option to save the game appears.

Feature Request: Pull Categories from J! Archive

It would be lovely to click once to automatically fill in the category names from J! Archive once the episode air date has been selected.