From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-12-01T03:01:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating my own array sort method

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Ilya B. <ilyabe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working through Chris Pine's book, "Learn to Program"...stuck with
> this in Ch. 12 --
>
> I have to sort an array of words, e.g.
>
> user_inputs = [bird, zoo, dog]
>
> without using the .sort method, e.g.
>
> user_inputs.sort
>
> Can someone please point me in the right direction on how to perhaps
> loop through all words in an array and compare them to each other using
> < to find the "smallest" word in the array?

I'm not sure which methods you are allowed to use, but take a look at
Enumerable#each, and try String#< to see if it works :-).

["bird", "zoo", "dog"].each {|animal| puts animal}

"bird" < "zoo" # => true

Hope this helps,

Jesus.