From: Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@...>
Date: 2012-09-21T07:02:40+09:00
Subject: Re: still learning by doing - connecting rooms in a game


On 21/09/2012, at 5:11 AM, "Sebastjan H." <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> 
> I am doing this as a task in the book learning ruby the hard way by Zed.

This book is considered harmful.

> Maybe I've made a mistake for trying to put everything in the room
> classes and not just the room descriptions.
> 
> Anyway, I maintain the code here:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~sebastjan-hribar/zombies/trunk
> 
> I would appreciate any pointers. I am stuck. I still have a lot of work
> to do with various descriptions and particular activities in rooms, but
> the main problem is this room connection.

I wouldn't have written the code this way, but I don't know if you are following the book or not.

To start with I would have…

One Room class that takes a name and description and a visited attribute. Not a class for each room as you have done.

Create a Map structure that defines the room layout. Something like

[
	{:room => :kitchen,           :next_rooms => {:north => :living_room, :south => :basement}},
	{:room => : living_room, :next_rooms => {:north => :bathroom, :south => :kitchen}},
	...
]


Henry