angelikatyborska's solution to Space Age on the Ruby track

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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 an age in seconds, calculate how old someone would be on:

Earth: orbital period 365.25 Earth days, or 31557600 seconds
Mercury: orbital period 0.2408467 Earth years
Venus: orbital period 0.61519726 Earth years
Mars: orbital period 1.8808158 Earth years
Jupiter: orbital period 11.862615 Earth years
Saturn: orbital period 29.447498 Earth years
Uranus: orbital period 84.016846 Earth years
Neptune: orbital period 164.79132 Earth years

So if you were told someone were 1,000,000,000 seconds old, you should be able to say that they're 31.69 Earth-years old.

If you're wondering why Pluto didn't make the cut, go watch this youtube video.

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 space_age_test.rb

To include color from the command line:

ruby -r minitest/pride space_age_test.rb

Source

Partially inspired by Chapter 1 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial. http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=01

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

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

space_age_test.rb

require 'minitest/autorun'
require_relative 'space_age'

# Common test data version: 1.0.0 7c63e40
class SpaceAgeTest < Minitest::Test
  # assert_in_delta will pass if the difference
  # between the values being compared is less
  # than the allowed delta
  DELTA = 0.01

  def test_age_on_earth
    # skip
    age = SpaceAge.new(1_000_000_000)
    assert_in_delta 31.69, age.on_earth, DELTA
  end

  def test_age_on_mercury
    skip
    age = SpaceAge.new(2_134_835_688)
    assert_in_delta 280.88, age.on_mercury, DELTA
  end

  def test_age_on_venus
    skip
    age = SpaceAge.new(189_839_836)
    assert_in_delta 9.78, age.on_venus, DELTA
  end

  def test_age_on_mars
    skip
    age = SpaceAge.new(2_329_871_239)
    assert_in_delta 39.25, age.on_mars, DELTA
  end

  def test_age_on_jupiter
    skip
    age = SpaceAge.new(901_876_382)
    assert_in_delta 2.41, age.on_jupiter, DELTA
  end

  def test_age_on_saturn
    skip
    age = SpaceAge.new(3_000_000_000)
    assert_in_delta 3.23, age.on_saturn, DELTA
  end

  def test_age_on_uranus
    skip
    age = SpaceAge.new(3_210_123_456)
    assert_in_delta 1.21, age.on_uranus, DELTA
  end

  def test_age_on_neptune
    skip
    age = SpaceAge.new(8_210_123_456)
    assert_in_delta 1.58, age.on_neptune, DELTA
  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 1, BookKeeping::VERSION
  end
end

class SpaceAge
  EARTH_YEAR_IN_SECONDS = 31_557_600
  ORBITAL_PERIODS_IN_EARTH_YEARS = {
    earth: 1,
    mercury: 0.2408467,
    venus: 0.61519726,
    mars: 1.8808158,
    jupiter: 11.862615,
    saturn: 29.447498,
    uranus: 84.016846,
    neptune: 164.79132
  }

  attr_reader :seconds

  def initialize(seconds)
    @seconds = seconds
  end

  ORBITAL_PERIODS_IN_EARTH_YEARS.each do |planet, orbital_period|
    define_method('on_' + planet.to_s) do
      seconds.to_f / (EARTH_YEAR_IN_SECONDS * orbital_period)
    end
  end
end

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