Learn Game Programming with Ruby

Chapter 2Get Ready

Using the Ruby programming language and the Gosu game library, we’ll create some amazing games with images, sounds, and Ruby code. But before we can start writing those games, we need to install a few things on the computer. To write programs, we’ll need to use programs! Some of those programs will be the kind you might be used to—programs you launch by clicking an icon. Others do their work in the background; they are unseen libraries of code that your computer needs to run the programs you write. All together, the tools and programs you use to write your games are called your development environment. The environment you need to make games with Ruby and Gosu consists of the following elements.

Ruby

Ruby is the programming ...