thekeele's solution to Accumulate on the Ruby track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

Implement the accumulate operation, which, given a collection and an operation to perform on each element of the collection, returns a new collection containing the result of applying that operation to each element of the input collection.

Given the collection of numbers:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

And the operation:

square a number (x => x * x)

Your code should be able to produce the collection of squares:

1, 4, 9, 16, 25

Check out the test suite to see the expected function signature.

Restrictions

Keep your hands off that collect/map/fmap/whatchamacallit functionality provided by your standard library! Solve this one yourself using other basic tools instead.

Advanced

It is typical to call #to_enum when defining methods for a generic Enumerable, in case no block is passed.

Here is an additional test you could add:

def test_accumulate_when_block_is_deferred
  skip
  accumulate_enumerator = [1, 2, 3].accumulate
  accumulated_result = accumulate_enumerator.map do |number|
    number * number
  end
  assert_equal [1, 4, 9], accumulated_result
end

For installation and learning resources, refer to the Ruby resources page.

For running the tests provided, you will need the Minitest gem. Open a terminal window and run the following command to install minitest:

gem install minitest

If you would like color output, you can require 'minitest/pride' in the test file, or note the alternative instruction, below, for running the test file.

Run the tests from the exercise directory using the following command:

ruby accumulate_test.rb

To include color from the command line:

ruby -r minitest/pride accumulate_test.rb

Source

Conversation with James Edward Gray II https://twitter.com/jeg2

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

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accumulate_test.rb

require 'minitest/autorun'
require_relative 'accumulate'

class ArrayTest < Minitest::Test
  def test_empty_accumulation
    assert_equal [], [].accumulate { |e| e * e }
  end

  def test_accumulate_squares
    skip
    result = [1, 2, 3].accumulate do |number|
      number * number
    end
    assert_equal [1, 4, 9], result
  end

  def test_accumulate_upcases
    skip
    result = %w(hello world).accumulate(&:upcase)
    assert_equal %w(HELLO WORLD), result
  end

  def test_accumulate_reversed_strings
    skip
    result = %w(the quick brown fox etc).accumulate(&:reverse)
    assert_equal %w(eht kciuq nworb xof cte), result
  end

  def test_accumulate_recursively
    skip
    result = %w(a b c).accumulate do |char|
      %w(1 2 3).accumulate do |digit|
        "#{char}#{digit}"
      end
    end
    assert_equal [%w(a1 a2 a3), %w(b1 b2 b3), %w(c1 c2 c3)], result
  end

  def test_do_not_change_in_place
    skip
    original = [1, 2, 3]
    copy = original.dup
    original.accumulate { |n| n * n }
    assert_equal copy, original
  end
end

accumulate.rb

class Array
  def accumulate
    return to_enum unless block_given?

    each_with_object([]) {|element, result| result << yield(element)}
  end
end

accumulate_test.rb

require 'minitest/autorun'
require_relative 'accumulate'

class ArrayTest < Minitest::Test
  def test_empty_accumulation
    # skip
    assert_equal [], [].accumulate { |e| e * e }
  end

  def test_accumulate_squares
    # skip
    result = [1, 2, 3].accumulate do |number|
      number * number
    end
    assert_equal [1, 4, 9], result
  end

  def test_accumulate_upcases
    # skip
    result = %w(hello world).accumulate(&:upcase)
    assert_equal %w(HELLO WORLD), result
  end

  def test_accumulate_reversed_strings
    # skip
    result = %w(the quick brown fox etc).accumulate(&:reverse)
    assert_equal %w(eht kciuq nworb xof cte), result
  end

  def test_accumulate_recursively
    # skip
    result = %w(a b c).accumulate do |char|
      %w(1 2 3).accumulate do |digit|
        "#{char}#{digit}"
      end
    end
    assert_equal [%w(a1 a2 a3), %w(b1 b2 b3), %w(c1 c2 c3)], result
  end

  def test_do_not_change_in_place
    # skip
    original = [1, 2, 3]
    copy = original.dup
    original.accumulate { |n| n * n }
    assert_equal copy, original
  end

  def test_accumulate_when_block_is_deferred
    # skip
    accumulate_enumerator = [1, 2, 3].accumulate
    accumulated_result = accumulate_enumerator.map do |number|
      number * number
    end
    assert_equal [1, 4, 9], accumulated_result
  end
end

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