Aocli

A simple CLI that helps start any advent of code problem by retrieving the probem decription,your unique inputs and putting together boilerplate code so you can start solving as soon as possible.

Install the gem using

gem install aocli

Once installed simply run

aocli

You'll need to save your advent of code cookie before you can do anything else, simply select the save cookie option and paste your cookie in when prompted. This will save the cookie in the config file located at ~/aocli_config.

Advent of code uses a cookie to authenticate and determine the current user. To find out what your cookie is, simply go to advent of code and login using Github.

Once that's done

1. Open up the developer tools
2. Find the network tab
3. Navigate to any days problem
4. find the network entry with the name of the current days problem
5. In this network entry, you should find a request header called cookie.
6. The value of this header is your cookie
7. Copy that value, run aocli, select save cookie and paste it in when prompted

For the example shown, I viewed 2018 day 11 and can see the cookie inside the contents of the network tab named 11

Don't like the default template you got for each challenge? It's just about as basic as it gets so I've made it easy for users to create their own and have it be used. Simply create your own template, structured however your prefer and optionally insert the two directives __aocli_load_input__ and __aocli_problem_description__. You can leave either off if you prefer to either not have the problem description shown or would like to load your input in another way.

__aocli_problem_description__ Will be replaced with the given problems description as a comment

__aocli_load_input__ Will be replaced by the line that loads your input as a string into the input variable.

Then run the aocli command and choose the "Set Template File" option, paste in the full path to your file and it'll be used when generating the files for a given day.

Partial file path could be used if you expect to run aocli from the same location all the time but I'd recommend using the full path just in case.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/astley92/aocli. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.