Ruby Script Video Tutorial - add Construction Points

Chris Fullmer · 30 Oct 2009, 16:39

Ok, this is my first attempt at a real time, script writing tutorial. I might do another here shortly. I know some people are not fond of my videos, so I've done this to spite them And I've heard some people like the videos a lot, so those people are allowed to watch and listen.

But I warn you, this is Ruby scripting in real time. So its not super duper exciting, unless you like Ruby or want to learn to script.

It's only about 6 lines of code, so you can't get too confused I hope. Here are links to some of the methods I use in the video:

Model
Entities
add_cpoint

And as a note, rand(100) will never return the number 100. 99 is the highest it goes. But it can return 0.

All right, on to the video.

[flash=725,945:33apxxdn]http://chrisfullmer.com/forums/ruby_cpoint.swf[/flash:33apxxdn]

or download it here if you want to play it from your computer. (This is also handy if the movie is too tall for your Browser window): http://chrisfullmer.com/forums/ruby_cpoint.swf

Hope that helps. If it does, I might do more of these. I can show how to write a simple multiple pushpull script in about 10 lines of code next.

Chris

Rich O Brien · 30 Oct 2009, 18:16

Thanks for a great Tutorial.

I've little to no experience with Ruby but found this very informative and eye opening. Amazing how easy it is to understand yet hard to grasp?

Now I appreciate even more the effort and talent that goes into creating the excellent scripts you guys produce

Thanks

Ecuadorian · 30 Oct 2009, 18:35

Thanks for keeping encouraging us to try Ruby, Chris.

I like your video tutorials, actually, as I find text+images tutorials harder to follow. (I know, "people living in glass houses... )

d12dozr · 31 Oct 2009, 02:13

@ecuadorian said:

I like your video tutorials, actually, as I find text+images tutorials harder to follow.

+1

miikka1978 · 31 Oct 2009, 05:22

Thanks for a great tutorial. Ruby is something that I would really like to learn. I would assume that it will require so much time that I will never start learning it. Anyway, this kind of tutorial really makes me think that maybe I should still think about it.

xrok1 · 31 Oct 2009, 05:27

OK, stop pissing around and get back to writing your awsome scripts now!

MALAISE · 31 Oct 2009, 10:31

Thanks Chris for this new Ruby 's tutorial. Really helpfull
Dynamic explanations, what a good idea to follow step by step the code.
MALAISE