KidsRuby (http://kidsruby.com) is a Ruby programming environment meant for kids. It is heavily influenced by Hackety Hack (http://hackety-hack.com).

In fact you can run many of the same code samples from Hackety Hack in KidsRuby. For example:

color = ask("what is your favorite color")
if color == "blue"
  alert("you picked blue")
end

You can also use the Turtle, just like Hackety-Hack does

Turtle.start do
  background yellow
  pencolor brown
  pensize 2
  goto 30, 200
  setheading 180
  1000.times do
    forward 20
    turnleft rand(10)
    backward 10
  end
end

• Simple single file editor
• You can run the current contents of the editor
• The output appears next to the editor
• It runs a normal Ruby 1.9.2 on the code. With normal gems etc.

• Webkit-based editor - currently using CodeMirror
• QtRuby app - hosts webkit and provide http server to communicate with running Ruby environment
• Minitest/Minispec for testing. Yes, code must be tested
• Tutorial content is easy to create just drop HTML files on disk locally to the KidsRuby editor.
• Using a modified version of the JS library Turtlewax for the Turtle implementation https://github.com/davebalmer/turtlewax

ruby main.rb

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev
bundle install

I used the qtbindings gem: https://github.com/ryanmelt/qtbindings Since I also run homebrew, I discovered that the homebrew install for Qt4 needed a little symlinking before I could run the gem install for qtbindings as described here: https://github.com/ryanmelt/qtbindings/issues#issue/14

To summarize:

brew install qt
for DIR in /usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.7.1/lib/*.framework; do ln -s $DIR/Headers ${DIR%%/lib/*}/include/$(basename $DIR .framework); done
bundle install

Someone please describe this procedure here.

Install git standalone
Install Ruby 1.8.7 standalone
bundle install

• create hackety-hack compatible class with UI dialogs for ask/alert
• get syntax highlighting correct for Ruby code
• create hackety-hack compatible class for Turtle graphics
• tabbed divs for output/turtle/help
• layout for local html pages with tutorials
• implement Turtle width and height methods
• correct top/bottom orientation for Turtle relative to user
• adjust proportions of editor to sidebar for more visible space for tutorial section
• home to main index for help & browser forward/back buttons for help section
• split up HH help "pages" to go forward/back like the original tutorial
• make the canvas bigger for the Turtle
• add Gosu libs/classes to KidsRuby OS to make it easy to write games right away
• How to use KidsRuby
• editor save/open
• make the Run button WAY WAY bigger
• capture keystrokes within main Qt app and pipe to stdin when executing ruby process so we can support gets
• replace DBus communications with http based protocol which allows better multi-platform support and fewer installation dependancies
• fix background color
• A couple of funny things with the formatting of gets

• need to display complete debug info on errors again

• make the turtle canvas keep a correct aspect ratio when resized
• correct pencolor so it works

• switch editor colors to white background for better presentation display. we already have inverse css file, just need a way to switch to it, and back
• paste into editor (copy already works)

• update ruby4kids to include their latest lessons
• add more good stuff!

• make it easy to run pie (see what I did there?)
• create Shoes compatible classes (slippers?) to run Shoes example code too