Learn the Linux console with a small game. The name is inspired by the German term for a paper chase "Schnitzeljagd". The exercises are in German, so it is not directly usable for English speakers.
The game is based on Ruby and requires at least Ruby 2.4 to run. No additional Gems required.
The game was tested on
- Ubuntu 22.10
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Manjaro Linux 18.1
- MacOS 10.14 (Mojave)
- MacOS 10.15.3 (Catalina)
- Install Ruby (if not present)
- Download the latest release here.
- Make the file executable (
chmod a+x schnitzel) - Execute it
You can directly execute the program from the src folder by starting the schnitzel.rb script. For production use, bundle all parts of the program into one single file with bin/build.rb and transfer the resulting file schnitzel to the target machine.
bin- Build scriptsbuild.rb- Build theschnitzelscriptgenerate_chaos.rb- Generate the filechaos.tar.xzthat must be downloaded and unpacked by the players.
src- Folder with the sources that are bundled together to theschnitzelscriptexercises/- The single exercisesschnitzel.rb- The script's source (can also be executed but consists of multiple parts)helper.rb- Helper functionsexercise.rb- The class for the exercisessettings.rb- Settings for the program (pathnames etc.)Makefile- Simple make file to build the whole schnitzel experience
schnitzel- Game itself (only file needed on the target machine). Build it withbin/build.rborsrc/Makefile.files- files included during the creation of thechaos.tar.xzchaos.tar.xz- file the students download during the exercise, containing additional material (see files folder)
The game is developed by Thomas Smits.
This program is based on the idea of Eugen Krizki and Richard Vladimirskij and their framework pepio. Due to the many dependencies and problems with the node.js based pepio, I decided to do a complete re-implementation and extension in Ruby. The goal was to have one single file which can be downloaded and executed easily.