# Chess game

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chess-game/165686>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 16, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chess-game/165686 "2009-04-16T13:21:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tunickelz)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chess-game/165686/1 "2009-04-16T13:21:53Z")

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I am making a website with one view while creating a chess game in ruby.  
I’d rather not use Rails… some info on easier ways to accomplish this  
would be great. But anyway, where do I put the game’s .rb files etc?

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**Author:** ![tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tunickelz)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chess-game/165686/2 "2009-04-16T14:18:33Z")

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Is there a reason why you don’t wanna use rails?

On Apr 16, 12:21 pm, Fredrik S. \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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**Author:** ![tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tunickelz)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chess-game/165686/3 "2009-04-16T14:27:35Z")

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Gavin wrote:

> Is there a reason why you don’t wanna use rails?
> 
> On Apr 16, 12:21�pm, Fredrik S. \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-  
> Because I don’t need anything other than being able to embed ruby in  
> html. Plus I haven’t used Rails before and I’m not very familiar with  
> web development at all.

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**Author:** ![tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tunickelz)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chess-game/165686/4 "2009-04-16T21:11:59Z")

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I’ll look into those suggestions. And I guess I should read up on the  
basics too.

Thanks ppl.

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**Author:** ![tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@tunickelz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tunickelz)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chess-game/165686/5 "2009-04-16T16:45:56Z")

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Fredrik S. wrote:

> Gavin wrote:
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> > Is there a reason why you don’t wanna use rails?
> > 
> > On Apr 16, 12:21�pm, Fredrik S. \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-  
> > Because I don’t need anything other than being able to embed ruby in  
> > html.

That may be a good reason not to use Rails – you could probably get  
away with a Ruby CGI script or a lighter framework such as Merb or  
Camping. If you’re using a lot of JavaScript, SproutCore may also be  
worth a look.

> Plus I haven’t used Rails before

That is _not_ a good reason not to use Rails. 🙂

> and I’m not very familiar with  
> web development at all.

Then I suggest you read up on the basics of Web development regardless  
of what frameworks or libraries you end up using. Like it or not,  
you’re _doing_ Web development now, so you need to understand how things  
work.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
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