From: Francois Beausoleil <francois.beausoleil@...>
Date: 2006-11-14T03:41:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] VCR Program Manager (#101)

Hi all,

I don't know what the ethics are about writing a solution for your own
quiz, but here is the solution I came up with while building the unit
tests.

My solution put most of the code in Program.  Program is responsible
for determining if a given Time is part of itself.  Then, in
ProgramManager, I find all candidate programs, and select the one with
the best specificity, in reverse order of adding.

class ProgramManager
  def initialize
    @programs = Array.new
  end

  def add(program)
    @programs << program
  end

  def record?(time)
    candidates = @programs.select {|program| program.include?(time)}
    return nil if candidates.empty?
    return candidates.first.channel if candidates.size == 1
    candidates.sort_by {|candidate| candidate.specificity}.last.channel
  end
end

class Program
  WEEKDAY_NAMES = %w(sun mon tue wed thu fri sat).freeze

  attr_reader :options

  def initialize(options)
    @options = options.dup
  end

  def include?(time)
    if options[:start].respond_to?(:strftime) then
      (options[:start] .. options[:end]).include?(time)
    else
      return false unless self.time?(time)
      return false unless self.day?(time)
      true
    end
  end

  def channel
    options[:channel]
  end

  def specificity
    return 2 if options[:start].respond_to?(:strftime)
    1
  end

  protected
  def time?(time)
    start = time - time.at_midnight
    (options[:start] .. options[:end]).include?(start)
  end

  def day?(time)
    options[:days].include?(WEEKDAY_NAMES[time.wday])
  end
end