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Now that we know how to use arrays and hashes, we're going to build a small program that makes a grocery list for us. In this video, we'll clean up and put the finishing touches on our grocery list program.
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Here is our finished program:
def create_list
print "What is the list name? "
name = gets.chomp
hash = { "name" => name, "items" => Array.new }
return hash
end
def add_list_item
print "What is the item called? "
item_name = gets.chomp
print "How much? "
quantity = gets.chomp.to_i
hash = { "name" => item_name, "quantity" => quantity }
return hash
end
def print_separator(character="-")
puts character * 80
end
def print_list(list)
puts "List: #{list['name']}"
print_separator()
list["items"].each do |item|
puts "\tItem: " + item['name'] + "\t\t\t" +
"Quantity: " + item['quantity'].to_s
end
print_separator()
end
list = create_list()
puts "Great! Add some items to your list."
list['items'].push(add_list_item())
list['items'].push(add_list_item())
list['items'].push(add_list_item())
puts "Here's your list:\n"
print_list(list)
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So when we last left off,
we had printed out our list.
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And let's go ahead and run this again.
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The item is Milk and
we only want one thing of milk.
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Okay, let's clean up how
this looks a little bit.
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First, since we're sort
of duplicating code here,
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by printing out a separator, let's go
ahead and make a method out of that.
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And we'll call that
method output_separator.
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You know what?
Let's call it print_separator.
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And we'll give it an argument of
the character that we wanna print.
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And we can go ahead and
give this a default value of a dash.
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And all this method is going to do
is print that character 80 times.
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Now let's go ahead and
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replace the printing of
the separator with the method name.
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Okay.
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Clear my screen here and run this again.
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You know what I can
take out the list here.
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I can take out the list inspection
since we're printing it on our own now.
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This name is Groceries, and
the item that we're adding is Milk.
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And 1.
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Okay, now we have a separator.
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But let's go ahead and
clean this up even a little bit more.
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So now let's go ahead and
indent each line here.
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So we'll print a tab character
Inside of this list and
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the item's name and then another plus.
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And let's say we'll do three tab
characters here and the quantity.
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Now I want quantity to be
all on the same line so
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I'm going to add another plus and
take out that put statement.
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And this will create one big string and
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send it in as an argument
to the puts method.
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Let me clear my screen here, click in
to the console and run this again.
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Okay, this is looking a little bit better.
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We've got our grocery list, and
our item of milk, and our quantity of one.
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Let's go ahead and
say that we want to add another list item.
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Print my screen and run this again.
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List name is Groceries.
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The item is Milk, and we only want one.
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Bread, we're gonna say we
want two loaves of bread.
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And that looks good.
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We've got a separator in
between each of the items.
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But you know what?
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Let's go ahead and print the separator at
the end of all the list items instead.
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I think that'll look
just a little bit better.
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And now let's go ahead and
just add another item to the list.
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And in fact before we print the list,
I'm just going to print here's your list.
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And a new line.
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In fact let's go ahead and
add another message and say great.
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Add some items to your list.
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Now let me clear my screen here,
there's gonna be more output so
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I'm gonna make this a little bit
bigger and type ruby shopping_list.rb.
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This name is Groceries Great.
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Let's add some items to the list.
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Milk, we only need one.
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Bread, two loaves of bread.
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Eggs, let's get three dozen eggs
because we're really hungry.
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All right, and here is our grocery list
with our three different items and
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the corresponding quantities.
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In this course, we've learned about
how arrays and hashes work, and
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have even learned some simple iteration.
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Don't stop now, though.
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Make sure to practice these
concepts on your own, and
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practice by building your own programs.
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If you need inspiration,
check out the extra credit.
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Happy coding.
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