thekeele's solution to Hello World on the Ruby track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

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.

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 hello_world_test.rb

To include color from the command line:

ruby -r minitest/pride hello_world_test.rb

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.rb

begin
  gem 'minitest', '>= 5.0.0'
  require 'minitest/autorun'
  require_relative 'hello_world'
rescue Gem::LoadError => e
  puts "\nMissing Dependency:\n#{e.backtrace.first} #{e.message}"
  puts 'Minitest 5.0 gem must be installed for the Ruby track.'
rescue LoadError => e
  puts "\nError:\n#{e.backtrace.first} #{e.message}"
  puts DATA.read
  exit 1
end

# Common test data version: 1.1.0 be3ae66
class HelloWorldTest < Minitest::Test
  def test_say_hi
    # skip
    assert_equal "Hello, World!", HelloWorld.hello
  end
end

__END__

*****************************************************
You got an error, which is exactly as it should be.
This is the first step in the Test-Driven Development
(TDD) process.

The most important part of the error is

   cannot load such file

It's looking for a file named hello_world.rb that doesn't
exist yet.

To fix the error, create an empty file named hello_world.rb
in the same directory as the hello_world_test.rb file.

Then run the test again.

For more guidance as you work on this exercise, see
GETTING_STARTED.md.
*****************************************************

class HelloWorld
  def self.hello
    "Hello, World!"
  end
end

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hello_world_test.rb

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