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to Resistor Color Duo in the Ruby Track

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Test suite
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If you want to build something using a Raspberry Pi, you'll probably use resistors. For this exercise, you need to know two things about them:

  • Each resistor has a resistance value.
  • Resistors are small - so small in fact that if you printed the resistance value on them, it would be hard to read. To get around this problem, manufacturers print color-coded bands onto the resistors to denote their resistance values. Each band has a position and a numeric value. For example, if they printed a brown band (value 1) followed by a green band (value 5), it would translate to the number 15.

In this exercise you are going to create a helpful program so that you don't have to remember the values of the bands. The program will take color names as input and output a two digit number, even if the input is more than two colors!

The colors are mapped to the numbers from 0 to 9 in the sequence: Black - Brown - Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue - Violet - Grey - White

From the example above: brown-green should return 15 brown-green-violet should return 15 too, ignoring the third color.

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 resistor_color_duo_test.rb

To include color from the command line:

ruby -r minitest/pride resistor_color_duo_test.rb

Source

Maud de Vries, Erik Schierboom https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/issues/1464

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resistor_color_duo_test.rb

require 'minitest/autorun'
require_relative 'resistor_color_duo'

# Common test data version: 2.1.0 00dda3a
class ResistorColorDuoTest < Minitest::Test
  def test_brown_and_black
    # skip
    assert_equal 10, ResistorColorDuo.value(["brown", "black"])
  end

  def test_blue_and_grey
    skip
    assert_equal 68, ResistorColorDuo.value(["blue", "grey"])
  end

  def test_yellow_and_violet
    skip
    assert_equal 47, ResistorColorDuo.value(["yellow", "violet"])
  end

  def test_orange_and_orange
    skip
    assert_equal 33, ResistorColorDuo.value(["orange", "orange"])
  end

  def test_ignore_additional_colors
    skip
    assert_equal 51, ResistorColorDuo.value(["green", "brown", "orange"])
  end
end
# In this exercise you are going to create a helpful program so that you don't have to remember the values of the bands. The program will take color names as input and output a two digit number, even if the input is more than two colors!

# The colors are mapped to the numbers from 0 to 9 in the sequence:
# Black - Brown - Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue - Violet - Grey - White

# From the example above:
# brown-green should return 15
# brown-green-violet should return 15 too, ignoring the third color.

class ResistorColorDuo
  DIGITS = {
    'black'  => 0,
    'brown'  => 1,
    'red'    => 2,
    'orange' => 3,
    'yellow' => 4,
    'green'  => 5,
    'blue'   => 6,
    'violet' => 7,
    'grey'   => 8,
    'white'  => 9
  }.freeze

  def self.value (colors=[])
    Integer(DIGITS.values_at(colors[0], colors[1]).join)
  end
end

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