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Sunday August 27, 2006 |
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Rubyquiz has accepted my submission, asking readers to write a class that returns a range of days in a human-readable format. The quiz can be found here.
Here's an excerpt explaining the idea..
If you've ever created a web application that deals with scheduling recurring events, you may have found yourself creating a method to convert a list of days into a more human-readable string.
For example, suppose a musician plays at a certain venue on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. You could pass a list of associated day numbers to your object or method, which might return "Mon-Wed, Sat".
The purpose of this quiz is to find the best "Ruby way" to generate this sentence-like string.
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Here are some example lists of days and their expected returned strings:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7: Mon-Sun
1,2,3,6,7: Mon-Wed, Sat, Sun
1,3,4,5,6: Mon, Wed-Sat
2,3,4,6,7: Tue-Thu, Sat, Sun
1,3,4,6,7: Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat, Sun
7: Sun
1,7: Mon, Sun
1,8: ArgumentError
To my surprise, there have already been several submissions with varying ways of solving the problem. This is a good way to learn some Ruby for sure..
(2006-08-27 12:10:46.0/2006-08-27 10:15:06.0)
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