From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-10-02T02:29:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Story Generator (#96)

On 10/1/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Jim Menard wrote:
>
> > I believe the 48 hours are up, so here's my solution:
> > http://www.io.com/~jimm/rubyquiz/quiz96/
>
> Dang that's clever Jim!
>
> Here's the tragedy.rb file I was taunting the list with yesterday:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
>
> class Array
>    def rand
>      fetch(Kernel.rand(size))
>    end
> end
>
> characters         = %w[James Ruby]
> sentence_structure = [ "S falls in love with O.",
>                         "S (slays|kills) O(.|.|.|!)",
>                         "S cries." ]
>
> output = String.new
> (ARGV.shift || 5).to_i.times do
>    sentence = sentence_structure.rand.gsub(/\b[SO]\b/)
> { characters.rand }
>    output << "  " << sentence.gsub(/\([^()|]+(?:\|[^()|]+)+\)/) do |
> choices|
>      choices[1..-2].split("|").rand
>    end
> end
>
> puts output.strip.gsub(/(.{1,80}|\S{81,})(?: +|$\n?)/, "\\1\n")
>
> __END__

I just get:

jim.rb:17: odd number list for Hash
something to do with the email formatting? I'll have to look later.

Les