This is a series of Ruby projects that I used to teach my grandson how to program. The projects are games which holds more interest for young developers. Ruby for Kids: Programming for the Fun of it is used for the early projects.
The Ruby4Kids site uses Ruby 1.8.7 and some workarounds if you use
version 1.9.2. I chose to use version 1.9.2 and replace the
workarounds. One example is require_relative versus adding the
current directory to the directories to search for a require statement.
On Mac there are a lot of development tools available. I chose to go simple on this project and use Aquamacs with YAS extension. iTerm 2 is used when I don't want to use the Aquamacs built-in shell. Git is used for version control. I tag certain steps in the project to correspond to key learning elements in the project. In the first Ruby4Kids project the tags correspond to the code at the end of a video lesson. RVM is Mac and *NIX only and just used to create a version bundle of Ruby and gems for projects. Since I am also working on Rails 3.0 and 3.1 projects it is handy to have a bundle just for this project without the gems and code Rails has. GitHub is where I host all the code.