yea but like how do you start coding in it, do you use vs code?
Here is what I got from the dragonruby discord server:
so the simplest way, end to end:
Keep a copy of the DragonRuby zip
To set up a project, unzip a copy of it and name it something helpful
Inside this new folder will be a dragonruby.exe, and within \mygame\app\ will be a main.rb edit main.rb and run dragonruby.exe
You have to unzip the DragonRuby installation Zip file into a new place for each project you want to have.
Anyway, this is the easy method. For custom files and setups, I don't know how to do it.
What platform are you using? Windows, Mac, Linux?
For Linux, one way to do it is to unzip DragonRuby into a directory and then add that to your path.
mkdir ~/bin
unzip dragonruby-gtk-linux-amd64.zip
mv dragonruby-linux-amd64 ~/bin/dragonruby
Then add these lines to your shell config, like in .bashrc or whatever file you use for your shell.
# set PATH to include DragonRuby
if [ -d "$HOME/bin/dragonruby" ] ; then
export PATH="$HOME/bin/dragonruby:$PATH"
fi
Run this command to update your current shell environment (if using bash):
source ~/.bashrc
Now you can create a new game by just creating a directory structure similar to this:
mkdir -p testy/app
vim testy/run.sh
Add these lines to run.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
dragonruby ./
Make run.sh executable:
chmod u+x run.sh
Now create main.rb in the app directory:
vim testy/app/main.rb
Put something like this just to test:
# test game while learning DragonRuby
def tick args
args.outputs.labels << [640, 500, 'This is really cool!', 5, 1]
args.outputs.sprites << [576, 280, 128, 101, 'dragonruby.png']
end
Once you have that done you can run run.sh:
./run.sh
and it will load the game you have in main.rb.
Update main.rb and the game will update in real time!
Hope this helps and have a good one!