Installing Ruby Racko on a Mac

To install Ruby Racko on your Mac:

1. Ensure your Mac's operating system is up to date.
2. Download the .tar.gz package from the creator's project website. This package contains the game files.
3. Move the game files to your preferred location.
4. Decompress the .tar.gz package.
5. Give yourself permission to read the game files.

After installation, you will be able to run Ruby Racko by entering ./playRacko into your terminal.

Let's go over these steps in more detail.

Detailed Installation Instructions

1. Updating Your Mac OS

Ruby Racko may not work on outdated operating systems. For best results, please follow Apple's official instructions for updating your Mac's operating system.

2. Downloading the Game Files

You can download the Ruby Racko game files from the creator's project website. Click "Download Demo for Mac" to start the download.

Once the download is complete, you will see a new file in your "Downloads" folder named something like ruby-racko-0.1.0-osx.tar.gz.

If the numbers are different, that's ok! It means that a new version of the game has been released.

3. Moving the Files to a Permanent Location

We need to move the entire .tar.gz package out of the "Downloads" folder and into a more permanent location. Let's create a file named "rubyracko" on our desktop, and move the game files into this folder.

You can accomplish this using the Finder app on your Mac. However, since Ruby Racko runs in your command-line terminal, we think it's a good idea to get familiar with the terminal now. Let's use it to create this new folder and move the Ruby Racko files.

Using the Terminal

Locate the Terminal application by typing "terminal" in your Mac's spotlight search.

Press enter to open it.

Your terminal will appear, looking something like this:

We want to create a folder named "rubyracko" on our desktop. If we type ls into the terminal, we will see a list of the different folders that are available to us right now. Desktop should be one of them.

Move into the Desktop folder by typing cd Desktop. If you are successful, you will see that "Desktop" has been appended to the command-line prompt.

Create a folder named "rubyracko" by entering mkdir rubyracko into the terminal.

To confirm that the folder now exists, you can enter ls again and look for "rubyracko" in the list of folders on your desktop.

Now we want to move the Ruby Racko game files from the Downloads folder to this new "rubyracko" folder.

Copy and paste mv ~/Downloads/ruby-racko-0.1.0-osx.tar.gz rubyracko/ruby-racko-0.1.0-osx.tar.gz into the terminal.

Enter cd rubyracko to move into the "rubyracko" folder.

Enter ls to list the files in this folder. You should see only the Ruby Racko .tar.gz files.

Success!

4. Decompressing the Files

The Ruby Racko files have been compressed to make them easier to download. We need to decompress them before we can play.

First, make sure you are in the same folder as the game files. If you followed the instructions above, you should still be in the "rubyracko" folder on your desktop.

Copy and paste gunzip -c ruby-racko-0.1.0-osx.tar.gz | tar xopf - into the terminal.

Enter ls.

You should now see:

A new folder has been created, named ruby-racko-0.1.0-osx!

5. Getting Permission to Read the Files

A quirk currently exists which requires you give to yourself special permission to play Ruby Racko.

To do this, first enter the new folder using the cd ruby-racko-0.1.0-osx command.

Enter ls again to see the contents of this folder. You should see "lib" and "playRacko" inside.

We use the "playRacko" file to run Ruby Racko. This is the file we need access to.

Enter chmod 755 playRacko into the terminal.

Running Ruby Racko

Make sure you are in the same terminal location as the "playRacko" file. If you followed the instructions above, entering cd ~/Desktop/rubyracko/ruby-racko-0.1.0-osx will put you in the correct location.

To run Ruby Racko, enter ./playRacko into the terminal.