[QUIZ] Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187)

M

Matthew Moss

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## Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187)

It's six more days of Advent, and then... Christmas! Your task is to
create a Ruby script that celebrates Christmas. Create a virtual,
ASCII Christmas tree completely with blinking lights. Or a countdown
calendar 'til December 25th. Or a script that generates the lyrics to
_The Twelve Days of Christmas_. Or whatever you like: some Christmas
creativity.

And... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

...

P.S. Yes, I'm politically-incorrect. That said, if you'd rather
celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's or another holiday using Ruby
script, please do!
 
G

Glen F. Pankow

Matthew said:
## Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187)

It's six more days of Advent, and then... Christmas! Your task is to
create a Ruby script that celebrates Christmas. Create a virtual, ASCII
Christmas tree completely with blinking lights. Or a countdown calendar
'til December 25th. Or a script that generates the lyrics to _The Twelve
Days of Christmas_. Or whatever you like: some Christmas creativity.

And... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Click to expand...

Whenever I wrap Matzmas presents the wrapping turns out extremely
lumpy, crinkly, and stuck with gobs of tape everywhere, and the
contents are always disappointing. This script is no exception.

Take the stuff between the '----- cut here -----' lines and save it in
a file, e.g. 'matzmas.rb'. Feed it to ruby, e.g., 'ruby matzmas.rb'.

Please don't try to learn anything from this code!

- Glen

----- cut here -----

### M E R R Y M A T Z M A S ###

"/|"\
"/wl)e";eval(\
"A | A"\
"A | A"\
\
"InHhL"\
",Z,%w{-"\
",Y&/LH,L*"\
"cCnd,Hh&/d,"\
"YCB/Hh,Y&YHh,"\
"L&xHh,L*v*nHh,*"\
"&ghHh,n&nHh,H*nHh"\
",*q*v*nHh,Hw*qv*Hh}"\
"Iq&n*L,Z,[,n&qK,n&qK,"\
"@TwC,LH/&ng,gLBbL@K,@Th"\
"/**,YC/k*d,Hh/*QdL@K,@FCB"\
"/,cQqq&ng,=/CcL@K,@F&v*,RBb"\
"y,g*mL!@K,@S&x,mQ/LhQqL,dBm=&"\
"ng@K,@S*v*n,dBckL,Q-Hy=&ng@K,@E"\
"&ghH,d&/L,Q-gqCbb&ng@K,@N&n*,/Qng"\
"*L,LH*==&ng@K,@T*n,H/yL,Q-cQHch&ng@"\
"K,@Eq*v*n,&CL,=&=&ng@K,@Tw*qv*,mCnk*y"\
"L,=QHch&ng@,]IDAJJA2)J*Qch,dC,U&UI=/&nH"\
",@\nOn,Hh*,\#{nHhL[&]},dQy,CY,MQHzmQL,my,"\
"H/B*,qCv*,gQv*,HC,m*:\n@I&JdCwnHCD2),dC,UjU"\
"I=/&nH,@,,,\#{q&n*L[j]}\n@I*ndI=/&nHDD&,ZZ,A)"\
"?,@,,"\
",G@,:"\
",@,,,"\
"Gnd,Q"\
"@)I=/"\
"&nH,@,n*w,v*/L&Cn,CY,RBby!\n@I*nd"\
"I".tr(' ID/VHLYGBqCA&|*UQJ=Z@K,',
'+;(r/tsfAulo1i8e|a.p=", '))

----- cut here -----
 
J

Joshua Ballanco

I feel compelled to express my sheer amazement. Thank you, Glen, you
have made my holiday!

- Josh

Matthew said:
## Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187)
It's six more days of Advent, and then... Christmas! Your task is
to create a Ruby script that celebrates Christmas. Create a
virtual, ASCII Christmas tree completely with blinking lights. Or a
countdown calendar 'til December 25th. Or a script that generates
the lyrics to _The Twelve Days of Christmas_. Or whatever you like:
some Christmas creativity.
And... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Click to expand...

Whenever I wrap Matzmas presents the wrapping turns out extremely
lumpy, crinkly, and stuck with gobs of tape everywhere, and the
contents are always disappointing. This script is no exception.

Take the stuff between the '----- cut here -----' lines and save it in
a file, e.g. 'matzmas.rb'. Feed it to ruby, e.g., 'ruby matzmas.rb'.

Please don't try to learn anything from this code!

- Glen

----- cut here -----

### M E R R Y M A T Z M A S ###

"/|"\
"/wl)e";eval(\
"A | A"\
"A | A"\
\
"InHhL"\
",Z,%w{-"\
",Y&/LH,L*"\
"cCnd,Hh&/d,"\
"YCB/Hh,Y&YHh,"\
"L&xHh,L*v*nHh,*"\
"&ghHh,n&nHh,H*nHh"\
",*q*v*nHh,Hw*qv*Hh}"\
"Iq&n*L,Z,[,n&qK,n&qK,"\
"@TwC,LH/&ng,gLBbL@K,@Th"\
"/**,YC/k*d,Hh/*QdL@K,@FCB"\
"/,cQqq&ng,=/CcL@K,@F&v*,RBb"\
"y,g*mL!@K,@S&x,mQ/LhQqL,dBm=&"\
"ng@K,@S*v*n,dBckL,Q-Hy=&ng@K,@E"\
"&ghH,d&/L,Q-gqCbb&ng@K,@N&n*,/Qng"\
"*L,LH*==&ng@K,@T*n,H/yL,Q-cQHch&ng@"\
"K,@Eq*v*n,&CL,=&=&ng@K,@Tw*qv*,mCnk*y"\
"L,=QHch&ng@,]IDAJJA2)J*Qch,dC,U&UI=/&nH"\
",@\nOn,Hh*,\#{nHhL[&]},dQy,CY,MQHzmQL,my,"\
"H/B*,qCv*,gQv*,HC,m*:\n@I&JdCwnHCD2),dC,UjU"\
"I=/&nH,@,,,\#{q&n*L[j]}\n@I*ndI=/&nHDD&,ZZ,A)"\
"?,@,,"\
",G@,:"\
",@,,,"\
"Gnd,Q"\
"@)I=/"\
"&nH,@,n*w,v*/L&Cn,CY,RBby!\n@I*nd"\
"I".tr(' ID/VHLYGBqCA&|*UQJ=Z@K,',
'+;(r/tsfAulo1i8e|a.p=", '))

----- cut here -----
Click to expand...
 
S

steven shingler

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

I agree, that's v cool :)

I feel compelled to express my sheer amazement. Thank you, Glen, you have
made my holiday!

- Josh


## Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187)
It's six more days of Advent, and then... Christmas! Your task is to
create a Ruby script that celebrates Christmas. Create a virtual, ASCII
Christmas tree completely with blinking lights. Or a countdown calendar 'til
December 25th. Or a script that generates the lyrics to _The Twelve Days of
Christmas_. Or whatever you like: some Christmas creativity.
And... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Click to expand...

Whenever I wrap Matzmas presents the wrapping turns out extremely
lumpy, crinkly, and stuck with gobs of tape everywhere, and the
contents are always disappointing. This script is no exception.

Take the stuff between the '----- cut here -----' lines and save it in
a file, e.g. 'matzmas.rb'. Feed it to ruby, e.g., 'ruby matzmas.rb'.

Please don't try to learn anything from this code!

- Glen

----- cut here -----

### M E R R Y M A T Z M A S ###

"/|"\
"/wl)e";eval(\
"A | A"\
"A | A"\
\
"InHhL"\
",Z,%w{-"\
",Y&/LH,L*"\
"cCnd,Hh&/d,"\
"YCB/Hh,Y&YHh,"\
"L&xHh,L*v*nHh,*"\
"&ghHh,n&nHh,H*nHh"\
",*q*v*nHh,Hw*qv*Hh}"\
"Iq&n*L,Z,[,n&qK,n&qK,"\
"@TwC,LH/&ng,gLBbL@K,@Th"\
"/**,YC/k*d,Hh/*QdL@K,@FCB"\
"/,cQqq&ng,=/CcL@K,@F&v*,RBb"\
"y,g*mL!@K,@S&x,mQ/LhQqL,dBm=&"\
"ng@K,@S*v*n,dBckL,Q-Hy=&ng@K,@E"\
"&ghH,d&/L,Q-gqCbb&ng@K,@N&n*,/Qng"\
"*L,LH*==&ng@K,@T*n,H/yL,Q-cQHch&ng@"\
"K,@Eq*v*n,&CL,=&=&ng@K,@Tw*qv*,mCnk*y"\
"L,=QHch&ng@,]IDAJJA2)J*Qch,dC,U&UI=/&nH"\
",@\nOn,Hh*,\#{nHhL[&]},dQy,CY,MQHzmQL,my,"\
"H/B*,qCv*,gQv*,HC,m*:\n@I&JdCwnHCD2),dC,UjU"\
"I=/&nH,@,,,\#{q&n*L[j]}\n@I*ndI=/&nHDD&,ZZ,A)"\
"?,@,,"\
",G@,:"\
",@,,,"\
"Gnd,Q"\
"@)I=/"\
"&nH,@,n*w,v*/L&Cn,CY,RBby!\n@I*nd"\
"I".tr(' ID/VHLYGBqCA&|*UQJ=Z@K,',
'+;(r/tsfAulo1i8e|a.p=", '))

----- cut here -----
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
B

brabuhr

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## Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187)

It's six more days of Advent, and then... Christmas! Your task is to create
a Ruby script that celebrates Christmas. Create a virtual, ASCII Christmas
tree completely with blinking lights. Or a countdown calendar 'til December
25th. Or a script that generates the lyrics to _The Twelve Days of
Christmas_. Or whatever you like: some Christmas creativity.

And... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Click to expand...

I doubt I will find time to do more with this, so Merry Christmas:
cat RbMasTry.rb
Click to expand...
#!/usr/bin/env jruby
require 'java'
require 'mathn'

JFrame = javax.swing.JFrame
JPanel = javax.swing.JPanel
Color = java.awt.Color

frame = JFrame.new("Merry JRuby Christmas")
frame.default_close_operation = JFrame::EXIT_ON_CLOSE
frame.set_size(300, 400)

frame.show

class RbMasTry < JPanel
def paintComponent(graphics)
super(graphics)

[
[400, 150, 50, 125, 50, 400, 50, 50, 50],
[300, 150, 200, 50, 200, 350, 0, 200, 0],
[200, 150, 100, 75, 150, 250],
[100, 150, 50, 100, 100, 150],
].each do |a|
graphics.set_color(Color.new(*a[6..8])) if a[6]

a[0].times do
graphics.draw_line(a[1], a[2], a[3] + rand(a[4]), a[5])
end
end

graphics.set_color(Color.new(255, 255, 0))

360.times do
graphics.draw_line(
150, 50,
150 + rand(25) * Math.sin(rand(2 * Math::pI)),
50 + rand(25) * Math.cos(rand(2 * Math::pI))
)
end

graphics.set_color(Color.new(255, 255, 255))

rand(90).times do
x, y = rand(300), rand(400)
rand(180).times do
graphics.draw_line(
x, y,
x + rand(5) * Math.sin(rand(2 * Math::pI)),
y + rand(5) * Math.cos(rand(2 * Math::pI))
)
end
end
end
end

tree = RbMasTry.new
frame.add(tree)
tree.repaint
tree.revalidate
 
D

Daniel Finnie

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

Hi, I was wondering about this expression and its siblings:
Math.sin(rand(2 * Math::pI))
Click to expand...

The documentation
<http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005977>states that
rand(num) will pick a random integer between 0 and num.abs.to_i
(unless this is different in JRuby). Therefore, the only values that can
come out of this expression are sin(0), sin(1), ... sin(6) which are 0,
841, .909, .141, -.757, -.960, and -.279 (of course these are different for
cosine). Is it just the range -1<y<1? Would rand(2)-1 suffice? What is
the significance of these numbers and doing rand(2pi) instead of rand(6)?

I did enjoy seeing a JRuby solution, especially a GUI-based one. Kudos.

Thanks,
Dan


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
## Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187)

It's six more days of Advent, and then... Christmas! Your task is to create
a Ruby script that celebrates Christmas. Create a virtual, ASCII Christmas
tree completely with blinking lights. Or a countdown calendar 'til December
25th. Or a script that generates the lyrics to _The Twelve Days of
Christmas_. Or whatever you like: some Christmas creativity.

And... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Click to expand...

I doubt I will find time to do more with this, so Merry Christmas:
cat RbMasTry.rb
Click to expand...
#!/usr/bin/env jruby
require 'java'
require 'mathn'

JFrame = javax.swing.JFrame
JPanel = javax.swing.JPanel
Color = java.awt.Color

frame = JFrame.new("Merry JRuby Christmas")
frame.default_close_operation = JFrame::EXIT_ON_CLOSE
frame.set_size(300, 400)

frame.show

class RbMasTry < JPanel
def paintComponent(graphics)
super(graphics)

[
[400, 150, 50, 125, 50, 400, 50, 50, 50],
[300, 150, 200, 50, 200, 350, 0, 200, 0],
[200, 150, 100, 75, 150, 250],
[100, 150, 50, 100, 100, 150],
].each do |a|
graphics.set_color(Color.new(*a[6..8])) if a[6]

a[0].times do
graphics.draw_line(a[1], a[2], a[3] + rand(a[4]), a[5])
end
end

graphics.set_color(Color.new(255, 255, 0))

360.times do
graphics.draw_line(
150, 50,
150 + rand(25) * Math.sin(rand(2 * Math::pI)),
50 + rand(25) * Math.cos(rand(2 * Math::pI))
)
end

graphics.set_color(Color.new(255, 255, 255))

rand(90).times do
x, y = rand(300), rand(400)
rand(180).times do
graphics.draw_line(
x, y,
x + rand(5) * Math.sin(rand(2 * Math::pI)),
y + rand(5) * Math.cos(rand(2 * Math::pI))
)
end
end
end
end

tree = RbMasTry.new
frame.add(tree)
tree.repaint
tree.revalidate
Click to expand...
 
B

brabuhr

Hi, I was wondering about this expression and its siblings:


The documentation
<http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005977>states that
rand(num) will pick a random integer between 0 and num.abs.to_i
(unless this is different in JRuby). Therefore, the only values that can
come out of this expression are sin(0), sin(1), ... sin(6) which are 0,
.841, .909, .141, -.757, -.960, and -.279 (of course these are different for
cosine). Is it just the range -1<y<1? Would rand(2)-1 suffice? What is
the significance of these numbers and doing rand(2pi) instead of rand(6)?
Click to expand...

No significance other than trying to finish before 1:00. :) Maybe
I was thinking: sin(rand * 2 * PI? But, yeah rand * 2 - 1 would have
sufficed there.

Thanks.
 
B

brabuhr

I doubt I will find time to do more with this, so Merry Christmas:
Click to expand...

I did make a few modifications:
* removed unnecessary require
* removed unnecessary trig functions
* changed background color to black
* "animated" the star :)
* removed the snow :(
I never did get around to:
* decorating the tree
* putting presents under the tree

http://github.com/fjc/rubyquiz/tree/master/187

#!/usr/bin/env jruby
require 'java'

JFrame = javax.swing.JFrame
JPanel = javax.swing.JPanel
Color = java.awt.Color

frame = JFrame.new("Merry JRuby Christmas")
frame.default_close_operation = JFrame::EXIT_ON_CLOSE
frame.set_size(300, 400)

frame.show

class RbMasTry < JPanel
def paintComponent(graphics)
super(graphics)

srand(@tree_seed ||= srand)
[
[400, 150, 50, 125, 50, 400, 50, 50, 50],
[300, 150, 200, 50, 200, 350, 0, 200, 0],
[200, 150, 100, 75, 150, 250],
[100, 150, 50, 100, 100, 150],
].each do |a|
graphics.set_color(Color.new(*a[6..8])) if a[6]

a[0].times do
graphics.draw_line(a[1], a[2], a[3] + rand(a[4]), a[5])
end
end
srand

graphics.set_color(Color.new(255, 255, 0))

360.times do
graphics.draw_line(
150, 50,
150 + rand(25) * (rand * 2 - 1),
50 + rand(25) * (rand * 2 - 1)
)
end
end
end

tree = RbMasTry.new
tree.background = Color.new(0, 0, 0)
frame.add(tree)

loop do
tree.repaint
tree.revalidate
sleep 0.1
end
 
R

Robert Dober

P.S. Yes, I'm politically-incorrect. That said, if you'd rather celebrate
Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's or another holiday using Ruby script, please
do!
Click to expand...
So I leave it to the user which message to display ;)
I personally would chose

Health, Love and Peace for All on this World

But if you run my solution with this text you need some patience....

http://pastie.org/346680

Cheers
Robert
 
R

Robert Dober

So I leave it to the user which message to display ;)
I personally would chose

Health, Love and Peace for All on this World

But if you run my solution with this text you need some patience....
Click to expand...
Well as I had to fix a bug, I made the random choice converging, now
we can have peace in less time :)

http://pastie.org/346680

R.
 

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