A Quiz Engine In Ruby

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        // A Quiz Engine in Ruby

# A Quiz Engine in Ruby
# By Jake Burton <jake5991@live.com>
# The author disclaims copyright to this source code. And Also wishes you all the best. 


# Variables to customize
quizname = "QUIZNAME (STRING)"
score = 0

# Setting Up
class Questions
        attr_accessor :question, :answer
        def initialize(params)
                @question = params[:question]
                @answer = params[:answer]
        end
end

# A question number Array so we can get random questions from the hash. - There is probably a better way of doing this.
nums = (1..10).to_a
# Create Questions and Answers
qs = {
1 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION1", :answer => "ANSWER1" ),
2 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION2", :answer => "ANSWER2" ),
3 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION3", :answer => "ANSWER3" ),
4 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION4", :answer => "ANSWER4" ),
5 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION5", :answer => "ANSWER5" ),
6 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION6", :answer => "ANSWER6" ),
7 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION7", :answer => "ANSWER7" ),
8 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION8", :answer => "ANSWER8" ),
9 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION9", :answer => "ANSWER9" ),
10 => Questions.new( :question => "QUESTION10", :answer => "ANSWER10" )
}


# Engine Logic
playstate = true
while playstate == true do
         
				
                puts "Quiz: " + quizname
				puts "Commands; new = new question"
				puts "Current Score:"
				puts score
				
				instruction = gets
                next_question = case instruction.chomp
                        								
						when "new" 
								torf = false
								n = nums[rand(nums.length)]
								puts "Question:"
								puts qs[n].question
								torf = gets.downcase.chomp.eql? qs[n].answer.downcase.to_str
								if torf == true
									puts ""
									puts "CORRECT"
									puts ""
									score += 1
								else
									puts ""
									puts "INCORRECT"
									puts ""
								end	
								
								
								
						
						when "exit"
								puts "Thankyou for Playing"
								exit
						# Change this to set playstate to false to leave the loop and continue.
							
				end
		end
				
						
					

Tags:
• engine
• quiz
• Ruby