Frostbite

A frontend for Dragonrealms MUD

1.1 Installation

Application software

The binary package is a compressed archive and has to be extracted once it has been downloaded.


Download here: https://github.com/matoom/frostbite/releases


Install instructions:
  1. 1. Download archive.
  2. 2. Extract the contents of the archive into your desired location.
  3. 3. Run FrostBite(.exe, .app).



Ruby runtime installation (scripting only)

Ruby runtime installation is required for running scripts in the Frostbite frontend.

Frostbite scripting module has been verified to run with Ruby runtime versions 1.9.3 and 2.2.3.


Windows

The recommended version of Ruby runtime 2.2.3 installation package for Windows can be downloaded from http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-2.2.3.exe


Install instructions:
  1. 1. Download Ruby installer.
  2. 2. Run Ruby installer.
  3. It is important to include Ruby executables in PATH.
  4. Example:
  6. 3. Verify installation.

Ruby installation can be verified by running the "Ruby --version" command in Windows command prompt. 

        C:\>ruby --version
        ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [i386-mingw32]

Linux Ubuntu

  1. 1. sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
  2. 2. sudo apt-get update
  3. 3. sudo apt-get install ruby2.2.3
  4. 4. ruby -v

Mac OS X

Mac OS X already comes with a Ruby installation prepackaged. For OS X it is important to upgrade Ruby installation if the version is older than 1.9.3. To find out which version of ruby is installed run the following command in terminal: 

        ruby -version
If it was necessary to upgrade Ruby then execute the following steps:

Register new ruby installation in the Frostbite frontend.
  1. 1. which ruby
  2. for example => /Users/<*user*>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p545/bin/ruby

Navigate to the location where the application was extracted during installation.
  1. 1. cd FrostBite.app/Contents/MacOS
  2. 2. open/create file called client.ini
  3. 3. copy ruby path to client.ini:

        [Ruby]
        path=/Users/<*user*>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p545/bin/ruby