(06-04-2016, 08:17 PM)DerVVulfman Wrote: Well, some things right... Some things wrong.  General math symbols of  +(add) -(minus)  /(divide) *(multiply) are used almost universally between coding formats.  However, one can use the / in various ways such as filenames and directory paths.  And the '$' symbol is used to create what WE call global variables.  That is, it is a variable which can be used throughout your entire game... hopping from script to script (like $game_actor or $game_system).

I've been toying with the idea of penning a sorta cheat-sheet help file or booklet on scripting.  While you may not have heard of something called the RMXP SDK, the creators of that script package had a set of guidelines for scripters that was pretty choice.

In the forum's TUTORIAL board, you can find a RUBY help file that ntzrmtthihu777 converted from a website.  Very detailed.

• Ruby Programming Language
  
• Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0
  
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
  
• Ruby Cookbook
  
• Best of Ruby Quiz
  

(06-05-2016, 10:42 PM)kyonides Wrote: { } can enclose all key values pairs of any hash, Siletrea.

An instance variable is a variable only available to the class script involved but each copy of it will own one of its own, if it's Game_Player then it's only supposed to be available for it unless you add specific methods to get access to them or modify them. A second copy of Game_Player would hold its default values.

Class variables work in a different way, one of them is shared with all copies of that class script, so only one of them with the same name might ever exist in all of them at the same time.

Instead of subclass we prefer to call them child classes as if there were a mother-daughter relationship between classes involved.

(06-06-2016, 01:45 AM)Kain_Nobel Wrote: There is Ruby-Doc and the Ruby Forum, but you might want to pick up a book first. There's nothing wrong with learning online, it's all about your personal preference, but I learned from paper media. Here are some books you might find useful.

• Ruby Programming Language
  
• Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0
  
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
  
• Ruby Cookbook
  
• Best of Ruby Quiz
  

These are the books I've learned from and they've each got their own merits. The first three, more or less, break down the basics of the language and how each particular concept works; I would get any one of them, you definitely don't need all three, but it wouldn't hurt if you can check them out each for free at a public library. Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, co-wrote the first one so you already know he knows best. On the other hand, I really enjoy Why's breakdown of how Ruby works, he's a bit more clear and descriptive in his example syntax. Either way, it's a win-win situation.

The Ruby Cookbook is great but you may want to wait on that one until you're comfortable with programming as it's a little more advanced. Then again, honestly, it's never too early or too late to pick up the Ruby Cookbook as it contains so many abstract concepts beyond being just a vanilla how-it-works book. Seriously good stuff, there is a lot of interesting things to learn from it. If you have the money, I'd definitely purchase a copy and never let go of it.

Best of Ruby Quiz has some similarities to the Ruby Cookbook, a list of challenging and advanced concepts with source code. You can visit the author's website here but you might want your own copy if it ever goes down. Again, definitely worth checking out, might be another "worth your dollar, don't let go of it" books.

There is way more literature on Ruby nowadays VS when I was booking, but most of them I haven't read or I would make some recommendations. You might want to double check to make sure you find the latest edition, some of these have been re-released 3 or 4 times by now.

(06-06-2016, 05:30 AM)DerVVulfman Wrote: *Resident werewolf gets out his emery board to work on his claws*

 As I like to say, "we learn by doing."