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Directions are unclear #12

Closed markedwardmurray closed 9 years ago

markedwardmurray commented 9 years ago

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The install Learn stuff can probably get deleted since they can't have gotten this far in the track without installing Learn yet.

The instructions are mostly through bash, being inside the ruby_basic.rb file, which is where I assumed i would need to write my answers (which is actually in lib/ruby_basic.rb). That filename crossover is confusing so the first should perhaps be renamed instructions.rb, with the Readme pointing out to run that file in bash using $ ruby instructions.rb and going from there.

It also wasn't immediately obvious what i needed to do solve the lab. I ended up reading the spec file itself to interpret it. If that's the goal of the lab then it should be explicitly stated, e.g. "interpret the test readouts while solving this lab". It's all easy stuff to do—I just had to put some time into deciphering what it was that I needed to do.