angelikatyborska's solution to Hello World on the Elixir track

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This solution was written on an old version of Exercism. The tests below might not correspond to the solution code, and the exercise may have changed since this code was written.

The classical introductory exercise. Just say "Hello, World!".

"Hello, World!" is the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language or environment.

The objectives are simple:

Write a function that returns the string "Hello, World!".
Run the test suite and make sure that it succeeds.
Submit your solution and check it at the website.

If everything goes well, you will be ready to fetch your first real exercise.

Running tests

Execute the tests with:

$ elixir hello_world_test.exs

Pending tests

In the test suites, all but the first test have been skipped.

Once you get a test passing, you can unskip the next one by commenting out the relevant @tag :pending with a # symbol.

For example:

# @tag :pending
test "shouting" do
  assert Bob.hey("WATCH OUT!") == "Whoa, chill out!"
end

Or, you can enable all the tests by commenting out the ExUnit.configure line in the test suite.

# ExUnit.configure exclude: :pending, trace: true

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Source

This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

hello_world_test.exs

if !System.get_env("EXERCISM_TEST_EXAMPLES") do
  Code.load_file("hello_world.exs", __DIR__)
end

ExUnit.start()
ExUnit.configure(trace: true)

defmodule HelloWorldTest do
  use ExUnit.Case

  test "says 'Hello, World!'" do
    assert HelloWorld.hello() == "Hello, World!"
  end
end

defmodule HelloWorld do
  @moduledoc """
  Elixir counts the number of arguments as part of the function name.
  For instance;

      def hello() do
      end

  would be a completely different function from

      def hello(name) do
      end

  Can you find a way to make all the tests pass with just one
  function?

  Hint: look into argument defaults here:
  http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/modules.html#default-arguments
  """

  @doc """
  Greets the user by name, or by saying "Hello, World!"
  if no name is given.
  """
  @spec hello(String.t) :: String.t
  def hello(name \\ "World") do
    "Hello, " <> name <> "!"
  end
end

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