Exercise 52. The Start of Your Web Game

We’re coming to the end of the book, and in this exercise I’m going to really challenge you. When you’re done, you’ll be a reasonably competent Ruby beginner. You’ll still need to go through a few more books and write a couple more projects, but you’ll have the skills to complete them. The only thing in your way will be time, motivation, and resources.

In this exercise, we won’t make a complete game, but instead we’ll make an “engine” that can run the game from Exercise 47 in the browser. This will involve refactoring Exercise 43, mixing in the structure from Exercise 47, adding automated tests, and finally creating a web engine that can run the games.

This exercise will be huge, and I predict you could ...

Get Learn Ruby the Hard Way: A Simple and Idiomatic Introduction to the Imaginative World of Computational Thinking with Code, Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.