wordle-life/README.md

# wordle-life

one-page app that turns wordle shares into standard file format used in the Conway's Game of Life community


## Dependencies
This app is not at all packaged. You'll have to make sure all the perl modules you need are installed. If you are on a community unix server with just user rights (like, say SDF), you may need to ask an admin to install for you, or alternately, you can make a personal perl library in your user space.

Here's what I used to [install the perl module I needed with cpanm](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2980297/how-can-i-use-cpan-as-a-non-root-user). It's just:

    curl http://cpanmin.us | perl - -l ~/perl5 App::cpanminus local::lib
    eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib`
    echo 'eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib`' >> ~/.profile
    echo 'export MANPATH=$HOME/perl5/man:$MANPATH' >> ~/.profile

then for each package, you can run *cpanminus*:

    $>cpanm CGI::Tiny
    ...
    $>cpanm Mojo::Template
    ...
    $>cpnam Mojo::Loader
    ...

Also, the Life Viewer is a super-cool javascript plugin app from the people at [Conwaylife.com](https://conwaylife.com) that is expected to be in the same directory as the CGI file. It is available with instructions [here](https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Tutorials/LifeViewer_JavaScript_plug-in)

Next steps will be to inject some better defaults into the RLE that the plugin recognizes so users don't have to set Generations Per Second every time.