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Can you spot all the SRP violations? Can you spot the abstractions that are screaming to come out? There's at least one OCP violation, too.
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gol_rules.rb
def tick(cell, number_of_neighbors)
if number_of_neighbors < 2 || number_of_neighbors > 3
cell.setAlive false
end
if number_of_neighbors == 3
cell.setAlive true
end
end
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context? shoot, that makes it too easy .

Essentially, this code is invoked for each "tick" of the clock to see what the next "generation" looks like for each cell.

You can see my first (well, second) Game of Life code -- and you can run it locally to watch each tick: https://github.com/JonKernPA/gol-2

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