The integer variables are:
toonie = 2, loonie = 1, quarter = 1, dime = 0, nickel = 1, penny = 3
I want the final output to be
"2 toonies, 1 loonie, 1 quarter, 1 nickel, 3 pennies"
Is there a way to interpolate this all from Ruby code inside [] array brackets and then add .join(", ")?
Or will I have to declare an empty array first, and then write some Ruby code to add to the array if the integer variable is greater than 0?
I would do something like this:
coins = { toonie: 2, loonie: 1, quarter: 1, dime: 0, nickel: 1, penny: 3 }
coins.map { |k, v| pluralize(v, k) if v > 0 }.compact.join(', ')
#=> "2 toonie, 1 loonie, 1 quarter, 1 nickel, 3 penny"
Note that pluralize is a ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper method. Therefore it is only available in views and helpers.
When you want to use your example outside of views, you might want to use pluralize from ActiveSupport instead - what makes the solution slightly longer:
coins.map { |k, v| "#{v} #{v == 1 ? k : k.pluralize}" if v > 0 }.compact.join(', ')
#=> "2 toonie, 1 loonie, 1 quarter, 1 nickel, 3 penny"
pluralize method. The one from ActionView does, the one from ActiveSupport doesn't. I used both versions in my answer, please note the difference between both examples.
Can be done in rails:
hash = {
"toonie" => 2,
"loonie" => 1,
"quarter" => 1,
"dime" => 0,
"nickel" => 1,
"penny" => 3
}
hash.to_a.map { |ele| "#{ele.last} #{ele.last> 1 ? ele.first.pluralize : ele.first}" }.join(", ")
Basically what you do is convert the hash to an array, which will look like this:
[["toonie", 2], ["loonie", 1], ["quarter", 1], ["dime", 0], ["nickel", 1], ["penny", 3]]
Then you map each element to the function provided, which takes the inner array, takes the numeric value in the last entry, places it in a string and then adds the plural or singular value based on the numeric value you just checked. And finally merge it all together
=> "2 toonies, 1 loonie, 1 quarter, 1 nickel, 3 pennies"
I'm not sure what exactly you're looking for, but I would start with a hash like:
coins = {"toonie" => 2, "loonie" => 1, "quarter" => 1, "dime" => 0, "nickel" => 1, "penny" => 3}
then you can use this to print the counts
def coin_counts(coins)
(coins.keys.select { |coin| coins[coin] > 0}.map {|coin| coins[coin].to_s + " " + coin}).join(", ")
end
If you would like appropriate pluralizing, you can do the following:
include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper
def coin_counts(coins)
(coins.keys.select { |coin| coins[coin] > 0}.map {|coin| pluralize(coins[coin], coin)}).join(", ")
end
This is just for fun and should not be used in production but you can achieve it like
def run
toonie = 2
loonie = 1
quarter = 1
dime = 0
nickel = 1
penny = 3
Kernel::local_variables.each_with_object([]) { |var, array|
next if eval(var.to_s).to_i.zero?
array << "#{eval(var.to_s)} #{var}"
}.join(', ')
end
run # returns "2 toonie, 1 loonie, 1 quarter, 1 nickel, 3 penny"
The above does not implement the pluralization requirement because it really depends if you will have irregular plural nouns or whatever. I would go with a hash solution as described in the other answers
eval in an example for beginners. This is the nuclear weapons approach. Every other answer uses a Hash, because that's the best plan here.
Binding#local_variable_get for exactly this use case.
local_variable_get is also super smelly in production code. They're a big clue that you need to rethink your implementation.
Binding#local_variable_get! Thanks