From: Bas van Gils <bas@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T03:10:49+09:00
Subject: a matter of style


All,

A little while ago I picked up a copy of the pickaxe book and got hooked to
Ruby. Never had a `real' project to work on though (that's what you get when
you don't hack for a living I suppose :-). Either way, a few weeks back I
needed an app that generates deals for the card game bridge. I made a small
design and hacked up some unit tests. After a while no more tests failed:

    bas@Librarian { ~/bridgehands }$ ruby bridgeTests.rb
    Loaded suite bridgeTests
    Started
    ....
    Finished in 0.003154 seconds.

After a bit more coding to format the output I got something that outputs:

    bas@Librarian { ~/bridgehands }$ ruby deal.rb
            AQJ652
            92
            T53
            Q5
    973                 4
    K87653              AQJ
    8                   J742
    JT4                 A9876
            KT8
            T4
            AKQ96
            K32  

Not bad... Like I said, I'm not a full-time programmer. I would *love* to
learn more about `proper' ruby style though. Is there even such a thing? I
mean, the book cover said something about *pragmatic* :-)

Could anyone have a look at:

    http://www.van-gils.org/~bas/bridgehands/

and give me some suggestions on style / ruby idiom / other things?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

yours 

  Bas

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