RubyKnight Gem Released (v0.2.0)

Well that was fun. I made my first ruby gem, learned Jewelcutter and published my gem to gemcutter.

What does this mean? You can gem install rubyknight and then play chess or write some code using a chess board model and engine.

> sudo gem install rubyknight

Successfully installed rubyknight-0.2.0

1 gem installed

Installing ri documentation for rubyknight-0.2.0...

Installing RDoc documentation for rubyknight-0.2.0...



> rubyknight



Enter a move such as e2e4, or a command.

Commands are prefixed with !

  !quit - quit

  !undo - revert a move

  !load <file> - load game state from a file

  !dump <file> - dump game state to a file

  !play - tell the computer to start playing the current color

  !reset - start a new game



rnbqkbnr

pppppppp

........

........

........

........

PPPPPPPP

RNBQKBNR



Score: 0

Enter move [White]> e2e4

rnbqkbnr

pppppppp

........

........

....P...

........

PPPP.PPP

RNBQKBNR



Score: -2

Enter move [Black]> !play

rnbqkbnr

.ppppppp

p.......

........

....P...

........

PPPP.PPP

RNBQKBNR



Score: -2

Enter move [White]>

OR

require 'rubygems'

require 'rubyknight'

board = RubyKnight::Board.new



puts board.to_s

print "Enter move: "

$stdin.each do |move|

    move.strip!

    begin

        board.cnotation_move move

    rescue RubyKnight::IllegalMoveException

        print "Enter a real move! #{$!.to_s}\n"

    end 

    puts board.to_s

    print "Enter move: "

end

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