A multi-player browser-based game.
This is a cleaup project for the exercise.
- clone the repo
- setup the gems
> gem install bundler
> bundle
- edit the
db/database.ymlfor your environment - setup the DB
> ruby db/setup_db.rb
- start the server
> ruby server.rb
- go to
http://localhost:9393
- ruby 2.3.7
- mysql server
So, you want to set up your own version of Shintolin?
Shintolin runs as a bunch of CGI scripts, so it should work on any server with Apache, Ruby (1.8) and MySQL installed.
You'll find a database template in dbtemplate.sql. You'll need to create a MySQL database called 'shintolin'; the command to import the data should be something like 'mysql -p shintolin < dbtemplate.sql'. If you want to check the import worked, open the MySQL prompt and type 'show tables;' - you should see 12 table names.
Getting Ruby to talk to MySQL is annoying. Really annoying. Follow the instructions on http://tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/ and see how you get on. It took me almost a whole day to get it to work (!) but that's because I'm a noob and used a package called XAMPP instead of installing Apache and MySQL seperately. The file 'mysql-connect.rb' handles the database connection for Shintolin, so make sure you change the settings there; in particular, 'root' should be changed for your username and '' with your password.
Shintolin isn't the best example of Ruby code; in particular, it's not very object-oriented, because I didn't properly understand object-orientation when I began working on version II of the game. There's probably a few other things I'd do differently now - still, you should see the orginal PHP version.
Happy hacking!
Shintolin - persistent browser-based multiplayer game
Copyright (C) 2010 Isaac Lewis
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