Glossary of Terms
- Dealer[http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&Itemid=59]
-
The program used to deal cards and manage poker matches. It is the official program used by the Annual Computer Poker Competition to run its matches.
- action
-
A method in a controller[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html], to which a route is mapped.
- Apache[http://www.apache.org/]
-
A commonly used production-grade web server that is also used by this application.
- background process server
-
A server to run jobs in background. Background processes are necessary because a TCP socket needs to be persisted in order to communicate with the Dealer[http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&Itemid=59].
- Beanstalkd[http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/]
-
The background process server implementation currently being used to run jobs in the background.
- bot
-
An automated agent that can play matches against other competitors without input from a human user.
- Player response
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A matchstate string with an appended action, according to the format specified by the Dealer[http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&Itemid=59].
- competitor
-
A user operating a browser or a bot. A competitor can participate in a match.
- controller[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html]
-
A class that inherits from
ApplicationController
, contains actions that render views to the browser, and delegates business logic to models and background processes. - CPRG[http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/]
-
The University of Alberta’s Computer Poker Research Group.
- gem[http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/1/]
-
A plug-in-like Ruby library or application that adds functionality to another Ruby application. Gems are listed in
Gemfile
and are installed by running bundle install from the application’s root directory. - Javascript template
-
Javascript embedded in an
ERB
orHAML
format template. It usually has an.js.erb
or.js.haml
extension. - match
-
A sequence of poker hands managed by the Dealer[http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&Itemid=59] and played by competitors.
- match state
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The state of a match on a certain turn during a particular hand. Strings describing the match state are sent to participants by the Dealer[http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&Itemid=59].
- model[]
-
A class that works with data from, and provides results to, controllers.
- partial template or partial
-
A snippet of template code (
ERB
,HAML
, etc.) that can be inserted into full templates at run time. By convention, partial template files begin with an underscore (‘_’). See and Rendering in Rails[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html] for more information. - participant
-
A competitor who joins a Dealer[http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&Itemid=59] hosting a match.
- Phusion Passenger
-
Integration manager between Rails[http://rubyonrails.org/] and Apache[http://www.apache.org/].
- route[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html]
-
A map between URL parameters and controller[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html] actions.
- template
-
A file that can be interpreted into an
HTML
page, which can be displayed in a browser. It is usually written inERB
orHAML
and is a file with a.html.erb
or.html.haml
extension respectively. See and Rendering in Rails[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html] for more information. - view
-
A set of templates that can be rendered by controller[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html] actions to the browser. See and Rendering in Rails[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html] for more information.
- worker
-
A process running on a background process server. The worker script for this application (
lib/background/worker.rb
) is based on theStalker
gem and runs on Beanstalkd[http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/].