Artscii

Welcome to your new Artscii! This is a very small, simple gem that I created for two reasons. The first reason is to learn what is involved in the process of creating a gem. The second reason is that I wanted to be able to present the gem creation process as a lightning talk to my fellow students at the Turing School of Software and Design.

Artscii has a simple purpose - to print out some ascii art pictures. There are three pictures: an owl, a frog and a fish.

I attempted to run RSpec tests on the output of the gem, but ran out of time before I had to give the lightning talk. I hope to go back and make the tests pass, as well as add more images to print out.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'artscii'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install artscii

To print out the animals, simply type 'Artscii.fish', 'Artscii.owl' or 'Artscii.frog'.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/earl-stephens/artscii.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.