Add visual cues to help students distinguish what's going on

[janetriley]

We see that students are confused about what program they're working in.

railsbridge-boston/railsbridge-boston#115
railsbridge-boston/railsbridge-boston#114
railsbridge-boston/railsbridge-boston#134

I have some changes to address them. Screenshot attached.

I'll apply them to the latest VMs.

[slothbear]

Colors are great for calling attention to the differences; well done.

Are there any formatting options that could be used to highlight the tips at the top? ("When you start your Rails... ...exit and hit return)? A color? A box?

[janetriley]

Good question. I can probably do something like I did for the ruby prompt. Will google and find out.

[janetriley]

Here are some of the changes I made:

• Added .irbrc for color coding: https://gist.github.com/janetriley/8467828
• Created a one-line .bash_profile - it wasn't getting run on vagrant -ssh
  source ~/.bashrc
• Tweaked .bashrc - https://gist.github.com/janetriley/8467872

[mxie]

These are great changes @janetriley! Where are these changes located?

[janetriley]

They're on my local image, which will be published as a binary. I made the gists to be more explicit about the changes.