This is pretty stupid, but it's a response to the article recently Dugg here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html
It is about how a lot of job applicants have a hard time actually programming. My friend and I were amused by it and started going back and forth with different implementations until it got to this point.
The problem is:
'Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".'
Now, it can be done like this:
1
2 1.upto(100) { |n| puts n % 3 == 0 ? n % 5 == 0 ? "fizzbuzz" : "buzz" : n % 5 == 0 ? "fizz" : n }
But, this is what I ended up with, which turns out actually to be faster and obviously far more flexible:
1
2 class FizzBuzz
3
4 def initialize(start_number, end_number)
5 @starting = start_number
6 @ending = end_number
7 @phrase_multiples = []
8 end
9
10 def add_phrase_multiple(phrase, multiple)
11 @phrase_multiples << [phrase, multiple]
12 end
13
14 def print_phrases
15 fb_array = process_phrases
16 puts fb_array.collect { |e| e[1] || e[0] }.join("\n")
17 end
18
19 private
20
21 def process_phrases
22 rarray = Array.new(@ending - @starting)
23 rarray = rarray.each_with_index { |item, i| rarray[i] = [i + @starting, item] }
24 @phrase_multiples.each { |pm| fill_multiples(rarray, pm[1], pm[0]) }
25 rarray
26 end
27
28 def fill_multiples(fill_array, the_int, printed)
29 (the_int - (fill_array[0][0] % the_int)).step(fill_array.size - 1, the_int) do |i|
30 fill_array[i][1] = fill_array[i][1].to_s + printed.to_s
31 end
32 end
33
34 end
35
36 fb = FizzBuzz.new(1,100)
37 fb.add_phrase_multiple('fizz', 3)
38 fb.add_phrase_multiple('buzz', 5)
39 fb.print_phrases