Ruby Workshop

Ruby Workshop

Want to learn more?

* The Ruby website https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
* Ruby gems (libraries) https://rubygems.org/
* Ruby Documentation http://ruby-doc.org/
* Article Ruby Gems for Command-Line Apps: http://www.awesomecommandlineapps.com/gems.html

Online Learning
* Code Academy Ruby - http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/ruby
* Programming Ruby - http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
* Ruby Monk tutorials - https://rubymonk.com/
* Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby - http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

Books
There are many books available. Here are just a few that I've enjoyed.
* The classic "pickaxe" book - Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas (http://tinyurl.com/l2vj66y)
* Headfirst Ruby by Jay McGavren (http://tinyurl.com/psmbgzu)
* Practical OO Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz (http://tinyurl.com/qzl36ft)

Text Adventure Games
* Text adventure games started in the 1970s with Colossal Cave Aventure. Read more about that here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
* How To Make Your Own Text Adventure On A Computer - http://www.bluzeandmuse.com/final_site/how_to.html
  We just started, and this page has so much more you can use to make a full-blown adventure game.

Workshop Outline

# Install Ruby

## Windows

Use the RubyInstaller - http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

## Mac

I prefer using rbenv to manage Ruby versions on my computer. To install rbenv, you'll first need git.

Once you have that, you can follow the instructions here:
https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv#installation

When you're ready to install Ruby you can type:

	rbenv install ruby-2.2.0

# Text editors
Editors are personal choices. I recommend trying a few before you pick one. Some popular editors are:

 * Textmate (http://macromates.com/)
 * Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/)
 * atom.io (https://atom.io/)

# Outline

1. irb
2. Output: puts, print
2. Input: gets; Encapsulation (methods), Calling methods
3. Control flow - if / case
4.