Let's start with the menu, yes?
From the assignment https://learnmesome.codes/lessons/06/homework/#/4
The menu must list the following options:
- Create new entry
- View existing entry
- Delete existing entry
- Quit Application
How about I make an array with those 4 elements, and have the method for displaying the method print it all to screen with one per line.
Let's see how that works
yeah, gotta push to have it show up on github DumbDumb
and the line breaks are for the different commits, dig?
I finally got around to changing the sublime setting for making tabs use spaces. And thankfully the next option is about tab stops, so deleting a tab works the same. God I love this editor
Bully for me, I got the menu.
Forgot that the puts array.inspect actually shows it in the brackets, and normally it prints it like I want with each element to a line. Horraaaay for the little things
so I made a little method called show_menu, that literally just puts it.
I thought for a moment to just make a variable, but hey refactoring and all it's better to have something like that a method
alright - so it's just giving me a bunch of errors about the local variable. I'll stick to puts menu for now. Sheesh
BUT I can totally have a method to run at the start of the program and to loop back at the end of the nested actions
got fancy and looked up how to add a trademark symbol character http://archive.railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=28925
Dunno why it works, so I'll ponder it later. If I had to guess I'd say "unicode," and if I was wrong I'd calmly add "I meant UTF, duh"
I ran into the whol local variable problem, just put the menu variable in it's method
-- alrigh, so I'm long overdue for a commit.
running through the options...aaand good!
I might not have mentioned this but I used '''Print''' so it wouldn't add a new line to the selection
and in markdown, code is in backticks not '''single quotes'''
three backticks are a code block
normal markdown has it with 4 whitespaces, fyi
and all this is on http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode and the github md page
so the loopy loop looks good, now to commit and fill it in.
##FOOOOCUSSSS## hashtags FOOOOCUUUUSSSS splats
the hastags are headers, asterisks are better for bold. Well, I think ##this works## but whatever
let's see what to do when the first option is selected: create new entry
So it'd be awesome to make a class to copy for each "person" in the address book
I think I need some coffee...
but before that! I made a method for creating entries, time to commit and test
and just noticing: the coloring for .md in this theme
threee lines are a good divider if there is a whitespace above, actually colors the line a little blue
if there is something above the lines it's orange like a header
now that I have the header right, let's see if the pound sign makes a header or bold text. the splash operator is bold fo' sho'
and yes, the three lines are thicker and two are thin
-- onwards: testing
hah, error on line two.
need commas between the symbol arguments
aaand another error: maybe adding an initializer will fix it
HAH don't need the initializer, here. and it's giving me an error
but I did end up using it
So, when I inspect the array the object looks funny, but appears to have everything. So I think that's it!!
Time to see if it works when viewing, which is the next function
oooh used the wrong syntax for the Array#Each
the first argument is the ELEMENT, and the second is index
lemme give that a spin
almost! it's actually Array#each_with_index
BINGO
adding a 2 more entries, 3 total, for the test address book
oh, and have to have an expanded view for selection.
Commit first :D
adding mad comments, to make more readable. Or at least I hope that's what it does
oh, so running some stuff, and the loop is going and goin
Found out why: .to_i actually converts non-integers to 0 http://apidock.com/ruby/String/to_i
so, have to find a way to both accept the index 0, and check for invalid entries.
v0.1 end
#v0.2#
well, it's 1:30 now, and I'm taking diminishing returns in the quality of my thinking process.
So, I'll sleep on it and maybe it'll come to me during work
--
ah, so git push doesn't push tags...bugger
something to look into later http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging
actually it's as simple as
git push origin --tags
or just the version tag name in place of --tags
and one last thing! I overthough things with version names in last weeks HW, git is pretty clean about it so I can get away with v0.1 to v12.100 and so on
dude, I fixed it! before I went to bed too!
I reveresed the order, and changed the conditional to both check to see if the answer is not "0" when the .to_i = 0
and I had to gets.chop after all, so I added .chomp to the menu too
man, I am so proud of figuring it out
fixed some spacing stuff in the menu, too. But that's just wasting time...
another day, another function to implement
have to make a method for showing the full contents of an entry
Alright, I'm going to commit this as v0.2 and then add encapsulation.
In class I realized I can put methods inside the object, cleaner but I have to be careful about using self.dot vs the arugment
Finished v0.2
can't tell wheter tag does the last previous commit, or the next commit.
bah humb whatever, time to encapsulate :D
so far, so good. commiting before moving stuff around
have to define defaults for initialize method, or else ALWAYS need a method
alright, so with some finagling, which I just learned has adestructive/underhanded implication, I got the view entry up and running.
ALMOST. There is currently a bug where an integer outside of the range gives an error, but strings give the apporpriate message and exit to menu. Fix later, only one more small function to go
to delete, don't pop, use Array.delete_at index
now to fix the bug, which is easier if I make a few more methods
actually, let me make the v1.0 first
*now tagging v1.0
It appears the last commit is the "current one" or at least that hat it looks like