Re: [Rails-devel] Enhancement Idea: Automated emails notifications

[Bill R. <ro...@gm...>]

On 2012-05-08, at 12:33 , John David Galt wrote:

> On 2012-05-07 19:52, Mike Bourke wrote:
>> Next best thing: can the rails save games be defined as a mime type within windows that autolaunches and loads the game? May need a version of the executable that doesn’t present menu options etc because it knows that its job is to load a save game – which means that creating it should be just about the last step, only performed once all the other code is stable, but it would come close to solving this problem.
> 
> The activating end of this would be fairly easy to configure in Mozilla if the
> "run rails and load save game" combination can be performed by one command line.
> Of course you'd still need a mime type, but something along the lines of
> "x-application/rails" would do fine.

Rails supports savegames passed as command line arguments, though this is not exactly documented anywhere.

I have a shell script for each of my PBEM games that runs the correct version of rails with the most recent savegame from dropbox.  The (two-line) script I use won't work on a system without find, grep, and tail (i.e. some kind of *nix or MacOS), but I've included it in the case that it is useful to someone.  Obviously you will need to edit the script to point at the right paths.

#!/bin/bash
cd /Applications/Games/rails-1.7.3
java -jar ./rails-1.7.3.jar "`find ~rosgen/Dropbox/PBEM/1856 -maxdepth 1 | grep \.rails | tail -n 1`"

Bill