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After pulling a little hair out due to problems with environment variables, my application is capable of drawing a line:
Again, many libraries are helping me out here. They’re all well documented and easy to use, but sometimes difficult to install.
Steve
I was fed up with RubyStack, so I decided to go from scratch and build up the development environment. Potentially this will allow me to deploy the apps in a single (large) zip file that contains Ruby, Rails, and maybe MySQL. I’ll try to convert to SQLite before I release the application.
This looks bad:
But in reality:
Eureka! RMagick actually works…
Now I can get back to troubleshooting my graph code. If I don’t get it working, you all will be looking at pencil drawings on graph paper, which are not even close to real-time.
NetBeans is still helping me along the way. I use the console quite a bit now that I’ve picked up commands, but the built in Rails hooks are very useful if you are afraid of a shell.
Steve
Coffee drinking machine/student interested in programming, physics, and mathematics.
First:
The entry for the Independent Game Developers Festival has been completed, Bubble Blow. You can read more about it at http://beauhinks.com/bubbleblow
Very basic game, but given the time constraints turned out relatively well. Physics work…
Didn’t win in the Darwin Race of Languages… that wasn’t a big shock! Ah well congratulations to the individuals that did, some of the submissions were really well done and significantly easier to install than…
Don’t forget to VOTE!
Also, check out my other posts to the left concerning the development process using NetBeans.
Update:
The zip archive was quite large and took awhile to extract thanks to all of the doc…
Well it is 2:40 AM my time on July 22nd and I am not where I would like to be in the project.
However, I do have something to show and will try to package some…
After pulling a little hair out due to problems with environment variables, my application is capable of drawing a line:
Again, many libraries are helping me out here. They’re all well documented and…
