Part 2 : Gettting Shit Done...

Allright, this weekend is the weekend for getting shit done. I've had 1 dude piss about GameFUI and almost everyone else encouraged me to continue. As with any venture, you'll find at least one dude pissing and moaning. But then, you now know who NOT to listen to for future advice.


Charlie and I spent a couple of hours on Ruby/Rails and simply understanding the Ruby model and "way of doing things" on Friday.

Time Spent : 2 Hrs x 2 Dudes
Investment: $24 (Mommy did'nt give us lunch money)

I am now setting up Ruby and the base infrastructure to get a Hello World App running.
Here are some quick hits:

• Install RUBY
  
• I use fedora so I use YUM
  
• yum install ruby ruby-devel rdoc irb
• Install RubyGems (Ruby Package Manager -- Similar to yum, apt-get etc.)
• wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/20989/rubygems-0.9.4.tgz
• tar -xvzf rubygems*; cd rubygems*;ruby setup.rb [Do this as root]
• Install Rails (the framework)
• gem install rails --include-dependencies [Do this as root]
  
• I had some weird errors crop up, but nothing seemed too dangerous

Game on - I had the RoR installed and running.

Time Spent: 20 Mins
Investment: $1.24 (1 Starbucks Mocha from my fridge)


Ok, I FuBar'd -- I forgot I had IPtables installed on my dev, box and it took me some time to open up port 3000. I first thought that WEBrick was only listening on the localhost interface, and went down a rathole of trying to get WEBrick to listen on all the interfaces on the box. But then I found out it was IPtables -- Opened up Port 3000. Game ON....