Ari Brown
6/17/2007 11:00:00 PM
Hey all,
I was attempting Mexican Blanket today, and found it to be more of a
brain teaser (for me) than a coding problem.
Which doesn't mean there were no coding problems.
I keep getting an error for the Integer#times method. I think I'm
using it right, but could someone help me correct it please?
Also, do I have my shebang setup correctly to type ./
mexican_blanket.rb ETC and have it run? Because I can never seem to
get it to work.
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Error
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mexican_blanket.rb:21:in `weave': undefined method `times' for
"25":String (NoMethodError)
from mexican_blanket.rb:15:in `initialize'
from mexican_blanket.rb:49:in `new'
from mexican_blanket.rb:49
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Code
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#!/usr/bin/ruby
#this one is just a test thing. Not gonna do the designs diagonally
class Blanket
def initialize(colors, length, width, pattern_length)
@COLORS = colors.split(//)
@LENGTH = length
@WIDTH = width
@slot = -1
@SLOTS = @COLORS.length
@PL = pattern_length
@mainp = pattern_length
@offp = 1
weave()
end
def weave() # THIS IS LINE 15
@LENGTH.times do |i|
@mainp.times { #build the PATTERN long...
@slot = (@slot + 1)
width_ticker = 0
until width_ticker == @WIDTH #build it wide...
print '#{@COLOR[(@slot % @SLOTS)]}'
width_ticker = width_ticker + 1
ticker = ticker + 1
end
}
end
@offp.times do |i|
@slot = (@slot + 1)
width_ticker = 0
until width_ticker == @WIDTH #build it wide...
print '#{@COLOR[(@slot % @slots)]}'
width_ticker = width_ticker + 1
ticker = ticker + 1
end
end
@mainp = (@mainp + (@PL - 1)) % @PL
@offp = @offp.next % @PL
end
end
colors = ARGV[0]
length = ARGV[1]
width = ARGV[2]
pattern_length = ARGV[3]
mexico = Blanket.new(colors, length, width, pattern_length) #THIS
IS LINE 49
#end
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~aRi
I did my version of it as a top-down pattern as opposed to a diagonal
pattern.