Thank you Ricky. =A0Pacman seems like a fun project. =A0It= sounds like Gosu allows me to work with just Ruby and a few gems. =A0It al= so allows me to create an executable file once my program is complete. It i= s my understanding in that case the user who runs the executable would not = need to have ruby or anything else in particular installed on their machine= in order to run.

Do I understand correctly?

<= div style>Colby

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Ricky Ng = <dummey@gmail.com<= /a>> wrote:

Environment setup wise, run= ning a Linux VM makes life a lot more enjoyable.=A0

Proj= ect wise, I've done a lot of meandering this past year, hopefully some = of these will sound fun to you:=A0

1. Pacman with Gosu Library
2. Bullet Hell Game with Gosu Li= brary (which was largely a Box2D collision project)
3. Reddit Cra= wler/Bot=A0
4. IRC Client/Bot - Hooks into SVN and will post mess= ages when regressions are broken.

5. PunchCard/Hour Logging system with Sinatra
6. Static Webs= ite Generator=A0

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Mar= kus Schirp <mbj@seonic.net> wrote:

A good idea is to switch to a Unix OS first = if you plan to get hired ;)

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:15:13AM +0900, Colby Callahan wrote:
> I have started learning Ruby this past week and have down the basics o= f
> loops, filters, strings, arrays, hashes, functions, etc.
>
> Since I have no professional experience with the language, I figured I=
> would complete a few projects on my own and see if I can get hired
> somewhere.
>
> What kinds of small projects might a beginning Ruby programmer take on= that
> would demonstrate enough skill to get hired? =A0Is Ruby code enough or= would
> it have to be an actual Rails app?
>
> p.s. =A0I have no idea how to deploy a rails application - environment= seems
> impossible to set up - yes I have followed more than 5 tutorials exact= ly.
> =A0Prob doesn't help I'm on a Windows 64 bit machine as it see= ms certain dll
> files and other things get messed up easily.
>
> Colby

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