cjavdev's solution to Largest Series Product on the Ruby track

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Test suite

Solution

Note:

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.

Given a string of digits, calculate the largest product for a contiguous substring of digits of length n.

For example, for the input '1027839564', the largest product for a series of 3 digits is 270 (9 * 5 * 6), and the largest product for a series of 5 digits is 7560 (7 * 8 * 3 * 9 * 5).

Note that these series are only required to occupy adjacent positions in the input; the digits need not be numerically consecutive.

For the input '73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934', the largest product for a series of 6 digits is 23520.

For installation and learning resources, refer to the exercism help 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 largest_series_product_test.rb

To include color from the command line:

ruby -r minitest/pride largest_series_product_test.rb

Source

A variation on Problem 8 at Project Euler http://projecteuler.net/problem=8

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largest_series_product_test.rb

require 'minitest/autorun'
require_relative 'largest_series_product'

# Common test data version: 1.0.0 e79b832
class LargestSeriesProductTest < Minitest::Test
  def test_finds_the_largest_product_if_span_equals_length
    # skip
    assert_equal 18, Series.new('29').largest_product(2)
  end

  def test_can_find_the_largest_product_of_2_with_numbers_in_order
    skip
    assert_equal 72, Series.new('0123456789').largest_product(2)
  end

  def test_can_find_the_largest_product_of_2
    skip
    assert_equal 48, Series.new('576802143').largest_product(2)
  end

  def test_can_find_the_largest_product_of_3_with_numbers_in_order
    skip
    assert_equal 504, Series.new('0123456789').largest_product(3)
  end

  def test_can_find_the_largest_product_of_3
    skip
    assert_equal 270, Series.new('1027839564').largest_product(3)
  end

  def test_can_find_the_largest_product_of_5_with_numbers_in_order
    skip
    assert_equal 15120, Series.new('0123456789').largest_product(5)
  end

  def test_can_get_the_largest_product_of_a_big_number
    skip
    assert_equal 23520, Series.new('73167176531330624919225119674426574742355349194934').largest_product(6)
  end

  def test_reports_zero_if_the_only_digits_are_zero
    skip
    assert_equal 0, Series.new('0000').largest_product(2)
  end

  def test_reports_zero_if_all_spans_include_zero
    skip
    assert_equal 0, Series.new('99099').largest_product(3)
  end

  def test_rejects_span_longer_than_string_length
    skip
    assert_raises(ArgumentError) { Series.new('123').largest_product(4) }
  end

  def test_reports_1_for_empty_string_and_empty_product_0_span
    skip
    assert_equal 1, Series.new('').largest_product(0)
  end

  def test_reports_1_for_nonempty_string_and_empty_product_0_span
    skip
    assert_equal 1, Series.new('123').largest_product(0)
  end

  def test_rejects_empty_string_and_nonzero_span
    skip
    assert_raises(ArgumentError) { Series.new('').largest_product(1) }
  end

  def test_rejects_invalid_character_in_digits
    skip
    assert_raises(ArgumentError) { Series.new('1234a5').largest_product(2) }
  end

  def test_rejects_negative_span
    skip
    assert_raises(ArgumentError) { Series.new('12345').largest_product(-1) }
  end

  # Problems in exercism evolve over time, as we find better ways to ask
  # questions.
  # The version number refers to the version of the problem you solved,
  # not your solution.
  #
  # Define a constant named VERSION inside of the top level BookKeeping
  # module, which may be placed near the end of your file.
  #
  # In your file, it will look like this:
  #
  # module BookKeeping
  #   VERSION = 1 # Where the version number matches the one in the test.
  # end
  #
  # If you are curious, read more about constants on RubyDoc:
  # http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/UsersGuide/rg/constants.html

  def test_bookkeeping
    skip
    assert_equal 3, BookKeeping::VERSION
  end
end

class Series
  attr_reader :digits

  def initialize(digits)
    raise ArgumentError if digits =~ /[^0-9]/
    @digits = digits.chars.map(&:to_i)
  end

  def largest_product(num)
    raise ArgumentError if num > digits.length || num < 0

    (0..(digits.length - num)).lazy.map do |i|
      digits[i...(i + num)]
    end.map do |sequence|
      sequence.inject(1, :*)
    end.max
  end
end

module BookKeeping
  VERSION = 2
end

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