From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T00:00:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Word Blender (#108)

On Jan 7, 2007, at 6:47 AM, Fedor Labounko wrote:

> It just so happened that I was learning ruby last summer and wrote  
> a program to cheat for me at TextTwist. Needless to say the game  
> got boring really fast, but it was neat writing the program. I've  
> modified it a bit to instead play the game, but I'm a fairly new  
> user and would appreciate any feedback, both ruby related and  
> general programming.

Looking pretty good to me.

> Also, I have the problem that when running this on Windows it  
> doesn't allow me to manipulate files with Ruby, giving me a  
> Permission Denied error on File.open. Any idea why this might be?

Well, you pass open() three arguments:

   File.open("reducedwordlist#{i}.txt", "w", File::CREAT) do |fout|

I'm pretty sure that form has the third argument being the  
permissions of the new file.  Take out the File::CREAT, the "w" mode  
string handles that automatically, and see if that fixes it up.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II