answer-factory 0.1.1 → 0.1.2

data/VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.1.1
+0.1.2

data/answer-factory.gemspec

@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = %q{answer-factory}
-  s.version = "0.1.1"
+  s.version = "0.1.2"
 
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["Bill Tozier", "Trek Glowacki", "Jesse Sielaff"]
-  s.date = %q{2010-05-11}
+  s.date = %q{2010-05-12}
   s.default_executable = %q{answer-factory}
   s.description = %q{The pragmaticgp gem provides a simple framework for building, running and managing genetic programming experiments which automatically discover algorithms and equations to solve user-defined problems.}
   s.email = %q{bill@vagueinnovation.com}
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
      "lib/machines/mutate_footnotes.rb",
      "lib/machines/select_nondominated.rb",
      "readme.md",
-     "spec/answer_spec.rb",
-     "spec/batch_spec.rb",
+     "spec/answers/answer_spec.rb",
+     "spec/answers/batch_spec.rb",
      "spec/factories/factory_spec.rb",
      "spec/factories/workstation_spec.rb",
      "spec/integration_specs/couch_db_integration.rspec",
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.rubygems_version = %q{1.3.6}
   s.summary = %q{Genetic Programming in the Nudge language}
   s.test_files = [
-    "spec/answer_spec.rb",
-     "spec/batch_spec.rb",
+    "spec/answers/answer_spec.rb",
+     "spec/answers/batch_spec.rb",
      "spec/factories/factory_spec.rb",
      "spec/factories/workstation_spec.rb",
      "spec/machines/any_one_spec.rb",

data/readme.md

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Caveat
 
-**DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING TO WORK (AT ALL) UNTIL VERSION 0.1+**
-This particular project is undergoing a lot of serious surgery right now. 
+**THIS IS A PROJECT IN RAPID TRANSITION**
+We're doing a lot of serious surgery right now (May 2010), and adding a lot of functionality very quickly.
 
 ## What it does
 
@@ -11,9 +11,12 @@ The answer-factory gem includes scripting support for
 
 * generating new design automation projects
 * Nudge, a Turing-complete programming language for readable genetic programming
-* standard genetic programming search operators
-* a standard suite of powerful metaheuristics
+* some standard genetic programming search operators
+* a standard suite of powerful metaheuristic tools
 * full automated archiving of all solutions
+
+and is introducing
+
 * analytics and reporting
 * administrative tools for managing AnswerFactory daemons
 * reporting tools for exploring and directing search
@@ -34,15 +37,18 @@ This will automatically install several dependencies, including [nudge](http://g
 ### Creating a new AnswerFactory project
 
 Use this command line script to build an AnswerFactory project folder:
+
     answer-factory your-project-name-here
 
-This will create a new directory called 'your-project-name-here', and install a rudimentary subtree of folders and files. Perhaps most important is the `Thorfile`, which contains most of the generators you can use to simplify project creation and management.
+This will create a new directory called 'your-project-name-here' (in your current working directory), and install a rudimentary subtree of folders and files. Perhaps most important is `activate.rb`, which includes both configuration information and some examples of how to proceed.
 
-### Replicating a pre-existing project or demo
 
-TBD
+### Activating the AnswerFactory daemon
+
+Make sure CouchDB is running and available, navigate to your project's root folder, and invoke
+    ruby activate.rb
 
-### Generating new Nudge type defintitions
+### Generating new Nudge type definitions
 
 The Nudge language gem installed along with `answer-factory` includes a full-featured programming language designed for genetic programming projects, with integer, floating-point, boolean, and code types.
 
@@ -50,7 +56,8 @@ Often your project's domain model will call for additional types. To generate so
     thor new_nudge_type your-nudge-type-name
 This will create a template for your class definition in the `/lib/nudge/types` subdirectory (which you should edit as indicated in the comments to use), several standard nudge instruction classes in `/lib/nudge/instructions`, and rspec files.
 
-### Activating the AnswerFactory daemon
+### Replicating a pre-existing project or demo
+
+TBD
+
 
-Make sure CouchDB is running and available, navigate to your project's root folder, and invoke
-    ruby activate.rb

data/spec/{answer_spec.rb → answers/answer_spec.rb}

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #encoding: utf-8
-require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "spec_helper")
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "../spec_helper")
 
 describe "Answer" do
   

data/spec/{batch_spec.rb → answers/batch_spec.rb}

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "./spec_helper")
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "../spec_helper")
 
 describe "Batches" do
   it "should be a kind of Array" do
@@ -100,7 +100,11 @@ describe "Batches" do
             # because it hit the right URI!
         end
         
-        it "should handle errors returned from CouchDB"
+        describe "error-handling" do
+          it "should handle errors returned from CouchDB"
+          
+          it "should handle 'resource not found'"
+        end 
         
         it "should handle db connection problems"
         

data/spec/factories/factory_spec.rb

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ describe "Factory" do
           FakeWeb.allow_net_connect = false
         end
         
-        it "should have a method to check that couchDB is accessible" do
+        it "should be a method of Factory" do
           f1 = Factory.new(name:"boo")
           lambda{Factory.couch_available?}.should_not raise_error
         end
@@ -163,6 +163,24 @@ describe "Factory" do
           Factory.couch_available?.should == false
         end
       end
+      
+      describe "#couch_delete!" do
+        before(:each) do
+          FakeWeb.allow_net_connect = false
+        end
+        
+        it "should send the couch command to delete the db"
+        
+        it "should require authorization"
+      end
+      
+      describe "authorization" do
+        it "should be necessary to set up an admin account in couch"
+        
+        it "should not be possible to write to a factory's db without authenticating"
+        
+        it "should raise an error if authentication fails"
+      end
     end
     
     
@@ -184,5 +202,24 @@ describe "Factory" do
         it "should replace 'configatron.[workstation_name].[settings]' for each workstation"
       end
     end
+    
+    
+    describe "Factory state persistence" do
+      describe "configuration" do
+        it "should record configatron settings in a special couch document"
+        
+        it "should read from the special couch config docs"
+        
+        it "should read from the config doc upon startup"
+        
+        it "should read from the config doc every N steps, 'N' being a config"
+      end
+      
+      describe "logging basic events" do
+        it "should generate log documents for launch"
+        
+        it "should generate log documents for changes in config state during a run"
+      end
+    end
   end
 end

data/templates/answer_factory_activate_template.erb

@@ -56,8 +56,7 @@ class VariationStation < Workstation
   
   def initialize(name, options = {})
     super
-    @mutator = Machines::MutateFootnotesUniform.new(
-      )
+    @mutator = Machines::MutateFootnotesUniform.new
     @score_1 = Machines::EvaluateSimpleScore.new(
       :name => :number_of_footnotes,
       scorer:Proc.new {|a| a.blueprint.scan(/^«/).length})
@@ -76,16 +75,13 @@ class VariationStation < Workstation
   end
   
   def ship!
-    ship_to(:picker) {|answer| true} 
+    ship_to(:picker) {|answer| rand < 0.25}
+    puts "POLISHER SHIP: kept #{@answers.find_all {|a| a.location == :polisher}.length}"
   end
   
   def scrap!
-    best_score = (@answers.collect {|a| a.scores[:number_of_footnotes]}).min
-    worst_score = (@answers.collect {|a| a.scores[:number_of_footnotes]}).max
-    puts "#{worst_score}..#{best_score}"
-    scrap_if("too many footnotes") {|a| a.scores[:number_of_footnotes] > 
-        ((worst_score - best_score)/2.0 + best_score)}
-    puts "PICKER SCRAP: kept #{@answers.find_all {|a| a.location == :polisher}.length}"
+    scrap_if("contains 'oo'") {|a| a.blueprint.include? 'oo'}
+    puts "POLISHER SCRAP: kept #{@answers.find_all {|a| a.location == :polisher}.length}"
   end
 end
 
@@ -109,12 +105,12 @@ class ScreeningStation < Workstation
   def build!
     @answers = process_with @letters
     @best = process_with @so_far_so_good
-    puts "PICKER EVERYTHING: #{@answers.length}"
+    puts "----------"
+    puts "PICKER HAS THESE: #{@answers.length}"
     @answers.each {|a| puts a.scores}
     puts "----------"
     puts "PICKER NONDOMINATED SET: #{@best.length}"
-    @best.each {|a| puts a.scores}
-    
+    @best.each {|a| puts "#{a.couch_id}: #{a.scores}"}
   end
   
   def scrap!
@@ -124,6 +120,14 @@ class ScreeningStation < Workstation
 end
 
 
+##### this will soon be an attribute of the Factory, and saved as persistent config data
+# but it's the components of your Factory instance, each of which will be sent a #cycle! message,
+# in this order, by the launch code below
+workstations =[
+  GenerationStation.new(:maker),
+  VariationStation.new(:polisher),
+  ScreeningStation.new(:picker)]
+
 
 ####
 ####
@@ -146,10 +150,6 @@ Dir.glob(File.dirname(__FILE__) + configatron.project.workstations.path) {|file|
 ### these should get tucked away elsewhere:
 
 project = Factory.new()
-workstations =[
-  GenerationStation.new(:maker),
-  VariationStation.new(:polisher),
-  ScreeningStation.new(:picker)]
 
 # reset database
 db = CouchRest.database!("#{configatron.factory.couchdb.server}/#{configatron.factory.name}")

metadata

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
   segments: 
   - 0
   - 1
-  - 1
-  version: 0.1.1
+  - 2
+  version: 0.1.2
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Bill Tozier
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2010-05-11 00:00:00 -04:00
+date: 2010-05-12 00:00:00 -04:00
 default_executable: answer-factory
 dependencies: 
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ files:
 - lib/machines/mutate_footnotes.rb
 - lib/machines/select_nondominated.rb
 - readme.md
-- spec/answer_spec.rb
-- spec/batch_spec.rb
+- spec/answers/answer_spec.rb
+- spec/answers/batch_spec.rb
 - spec/factories/factory_spec.rb
 - spec/factories/workstation_spec.rb
 - spec/integration_specs/couch_db_integration.rspec
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ signing_key:
 specification_version: 3
 summary: Genetic Programming in the Nudge language
 test_files: 
-- spec/answer_spec.rb
-- spec/batch_spec.rb
+- spec/answers/answer_spec.rb
+- spec/answers/batch_spec.rb
 - spec/factories/factory_spec.rb
 - spec/factories/workstation_spec.rb
 - spec/machines/any_one_spec.rb