Things have been getting strange over at Manor Farm. Mr. Jones has been hearing strange whispers of giberish coming from the barn where the farm animals reside. Unbeknownst to him, the farm animals are crafting a special language so that the farmers cannot understand their subvertive scheme. Snowball, having some experience developing in Ruby, suspects that a program can be created to translate their work into Pig Latin - ensuring the humans will not catch on to their cunning plan.
This is your task, comrade.
Run the following command from within the project directory:
bin/setupThis will install the necessary dependencies.
First create a Translator class in lib/translator.rb.
From the Wikipedia article, it should be obvious that step-one revolves around determining whether a word begins with a vowel or a consonant. The class method self.prefix_is_vowel?() should recieve a word (string) and return a boolean value.
Once we know whether the prefix is a vowel or consonant, we must get the prefixing characters so that we may append them to the end of the word. self.get_consonant_prefix() should return a string of prefixing consonants until a vowel is encountered ('sq' in 'squealer').
Now that we have layed the ground work, we can focus on translating a word using self.convert_to_pig_latin(). This method recieves a string as its argument and should return a translated string as its output ('banana' = 'ananabay').
Now that a single word can be translated, let's think bigger. Ideally, we should be able to pass in multple words for translation. Let's re-purpose self.convert_to_pig_latin() to accept multiple words rather than just one. It should then return the entire string of words in Pig Latin.
"But what about our revolutionary song?!" the sheep exclaim. Fear not, Snowball was expecting this. If we hope to unite the farm animals accross England, we must ensure that we can translate this work. Comrade, it is up to you to translate Beasts of England into Pig Latin. This will require some modifications to self.convert_to_pig_latin() and don't forget about those pesky punctuation and capitalizations. You should also write a test to verify this translation inside of spec/translator_spec.rb. We wouldn't want another mix-up like the Battle of the Cowshed...
To run tests, run the following command from within the project directory:
rspec
With a suite of passing tests, we can now be confident that the farm animals of English will have their revolution. Napoleon will reward you handsomely.
First, run the following command from within your project directory:
bin/startWe are now inside IRB, an interactive Ruby shell for your terminal. Next we will import our Translator and afterwards can interact with it normally using the Ruby language:
# import class
require './lib/translator.rb' # => true
# call function
Translator.convert_to_pig_latin('four legs good two legs better') # => 'ourfay egslay oodgay otway egslay etterbay'