From: Matthias Reitinger <reitinge+usenet@...>
Date: 2009-05-16T06:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Big Words (#204)

Daniel Moore wrote:
> ## Big Words (#204)

This quiz immediately reminded me of FIGlet[1].  A reimplementation of 
FIGlet in Ruby seemed to be a sensible way to solve this quiz, taking 
into account the hundreds of fonts already available in the FIGlet format 
(saving me from creating my own font).  Fortunately I wasn't the first 
one to have that idea: the "Text" gem[2] includes a Ruby implementation 
of FIGlet!  So I couldn't resist to do this:

  #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  require 'rubygems'
  require 'text'
  
  def big_word(str, fontfile='banner.flf')
    font = Text::Figlet::Font.new(fontfile)
    figlet = Text::Figlet::Typesetter.new(font)
    figlet[str]
  end
  
  if __FILE__ == $0
    while str = ARGV.shift
      puts big_word(str)
    end
  end

Sample run:

  reima@marvin:~/devel/ruby/quiz/204$ ./big_word.rb "Ruby Quiz"
   ######                          #####                  
   #     # #    # #####  #   #    #     # #    # # ###### 
   #     # #    # #    #  # #     #     # #    # #     #  
   ######  #    # #####    #      #     # #    # #    #   
   #   #   #    # #    #   #      #   # # #    # #   #    
   #    #  #    # #    #   #      #    #  #    # #  #     
   #     #  ####  #####    #       #### #  ####  # ###### 

The font file needed to run the script can be obtained from [3].  Or pick 
any font from the font database[4] you fancy and change the file name in 
the script.

-Matthias

[1]: http://www.figlet.org/
[2]: http://text.rubyforge.org/
[3]: http://www.figlet.org/fonts/banner.flf
[4]: http://www.figlet.org/fontdb.cgi