From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T08:55:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] HighLine (#29)

Here's my solution.

I ran out of time, mainly for documentation, but I think I've got 
something worth showing here.  I'm using unit tests, so you can read 
those (primarily "tc_highline.rb") to see how my module works.

It covers the basics in the quiz and is pretty open for new additions.  
The killer feature is the type you specify in to ask().  It's really 
powerful in that it can take a Proc that does the conversion to 
whatever you like.  agree(), my version of ask_if() from the quiz, is 
implemented in these terms:

	def agree( yes_or_no_question )
		ask( yes_or_no_question,
		     lambda { |a| a =~ /\AY(?:es)?\Z/i ? true : false } )
	end

Here are some other examples from my test cases:

	def test_membership
		@input << "112\n-541\n28\n"
		@input.rewind

		answer = @terminal.ask("Tell me your age.", Integer) do |q|
			q.member = 0..105
		end
		assert_equal(28, answer)
	end
	
	def test_reask
		number = 61676
		@input << "Junk!\n" << number << "\n"
		@input.rewind

		answer = @terminal.ask("Favorite number?  ", Integer)
		assert_kind_of(Integer, number)
		assert_instance_of(Fixnum, number)
		assert_equal(number, answer)
		assert_equal( "Favorite number?  " +
		              "You must enter a valid Integer.\n" +
		              "?  ", @output.string )

         # ...
	end

	def test_type_conversion
		# ...

		@input.truncate(@input.rewind)
		number = 10.5002
		@input << number << "\n"
		@input.rewind

		answer = @terminal.ask( "Favorite number?  ",
								lambda { |n| n.to_f.abs.round } )
		assert_kind_of(Integer, answer)
		assert_instance_of(Fixnum, answer)
		assert_equal(11, answer)

		# ...

		@input.truncate(@input.rewind)
		@input << "6/16/76\n"
		@input.rewind

		answer = @terminal.ask("Enter your birthday.", Date)
		assert_instance_of(Date, answer)
		assert_equal(16, answer.day)
		assert_equal(6, answer.month)
		assert_equal(76, answer.year)

		# ...

		@input.truncate(@input.rewind)
		@input << "gen\n"
		@input.rewind

		answer = @terminal.ask("Select a mode:  ", [:generate, :run])
		assert_instance_of(Symbol, answer)
		assert_equal(:generate, answer)
	end
	
	def test_validation
		@input << "system 'rm -rf /'\n105\n0b101_001\n"
		@input.rewind

		answer = @terminal.ask("Enter a binary number:  ") do |q|
			q.validate = /\A(?:0b)?[01_]+\Z/
		end
		assert_equal("0b101_001", answer)
	end

I had a lot of fun working on this library and may just keep working on 
it to see if I can't turn it into something genuinely useful.

You can load my library two different ways:

# This first way loads the class system, useful if you want to manage 
many HighLine
# objects, say for socket work.
require "highline"
# Or you can take the easy out an import methods to the top level.
require "highline/import"

You can find my code here:

http://rubyquiz.com/highline.zip

Enjoy.

James Edward Gray II