From: Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T21:19:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [POLL]: ruby-talk seperation

Hi again,

	I just wanted to post a little piece of code I just wrote to help me
keep track of the poll. It is fairly crude, but it does the job, and I
really prefer this method. (since I hate spreadsheets with a passion!
Excel turned me off forever!)

<code>
# program to handle voting for ruby-talk separation poll
# by Tobias DiPasquale (not Reif ;-)
#
class Votes
  def initialize
    @storePath = "/home/anany/tmp/poll-store"
    @votes = {}
    self.load
  end

  def cast(list)
    if !@votes.has_key?(list)
      @votes[list] = 1
    elsif list == ""
      break
    else
      @votes[list] = @votes[list] + 1
    end
  end

  def load
    if File.exist?(@storePath)
      File.open(@storePath) { |f|
        @votes = Marshal.load(f)
      }
    end
  end

  def store
    File.open(@storePath, "w+") { |f|
      Marshal.dump(@votes, f)
    }
  end

  def empty?
    return true if @votes == {}
    return false
  end

  def tally
    count = 0
    puts "List\t\t\tVotes"
    puts "----\t\t\t-----"
    @votes.each_pair { |key, value|
      printf("%s\t\t%s\n", key.chomp, value.to_s)
      count = count + value
    }
    puts "\nTotal Votes: " + count.to_s
  end

  def prune
    if @votes.has_key?("\n")
      puts "Pruning vote record"
      @votes.delete("\n")
    else
      puts "Nothing to do"
    end
    self.store
  end
end #Votes

class Names
  def initialize
    @storePath = "/home/anany/tmp/names-store"
    @names = []
    self.load
  end

  def load
    if File.exist?(@storePath)
      File.open(@storePath) { |f|
        @names = Marshal.load(f)
      }
    end
  end

  def store
    File.open(@storePath, "w+") { |f|
      Marshal.dump(@names, f)
    }
  end

  def addName(name)
    if !@names.include?(name)
      return false if name == "\n"
      @names.push(name)
      return true
    else
      return false
    end
  end

  def count
    @names.size
  end
end #Names

def tallyVotes
  puts "<<< Ruby-Talk Mailing List Separation Poll Results Monitor >>>"
  votes = Votes.new
  names = Names.new
  votes.tally if !votes.empty?
  puts "People voted: " + names.count.to_s
end

def enterVote
  puts "<<< Ruby-Talk Mailing List Separation Poll Results Monitor >>>"
  names = Names.new
  votes = Votes.new

  printf "Enter name: "
  name = $stdin.gets
  if !names.addName(name)
    error("Person already voted")
  end

  for i in 1..5
    printf "Enter vote: "
    vote = $stdin.gets
    votes.cast(vote) unless vote.empty?
  end
  votes.prune
  names.store
end

def prune
  votes = Votes.new
  votes.prune
end

def error(msg)
  puts "\n[ERROR]: " + msg
  exit(1)
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  if $*.include?("-t")
    tallyVotes
  elsif $*.include?("-p")
    prune
  else
    enterVote
  end
end
</code>

As you can see, names are not associated with votes, and I only put the
naming store in there to keep track of who I entered already and who I
didn't. I will be using this to keep track of all the votes I find, and
have already entered all those from the beginning of these threads to now
(7:18AM EST). Comments on the source are welcome (please, do!). Thanks
again!

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