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Boris Bikes project

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Week 3 project at Makers Academy. For this project I built a system that manages bikes that can by rented by persons from docking stations and returned there at the end of the rental. Bikes can break while being used, in which case they won't be available for rental once returned. There's a van that takes in the broken bikes to a garage where they are fixed. The van can also be used to take the fixed bikes back to the docking station. This project was set by @shadchnev

Although not a part of our exercise, I implemented a class person that can rent bikes from the station, and break them while used. Each person can only have one bike at a time, for the fun of it I also implemented a method that allows persons to steal bikes from each other. Technologies used:

• Ruby
• Test driven development with rspec
• Git version control
• Object-oriented-programming
• CRC (class-responsibility-collaboration) cards.

Here's a demostration on irb of the system, after loading all required files and creating instances of all the classes previously mentioned.

Docking bikes inside a station:

station.dock(bike)
=> [#<Bike:0x00000101a91710 @broken=false>]
station.dock(broken_bike)
=> [#<Bike:0x00000101a91710 @broken=false>, #<Bike:0x00000101ab8a18 @broken=true>]
station.available_bikes
=> [#<Bike:0x00000101a91710 @broken=false>]

Loading a broken bike to the van and taking it to the garage:

van.dock(broken_bike)
=> [#<Bike:0x00000101ab8a18 @broken=true>]
van.take_broken_bikes_to(garage)
# ...
garage.bikes.count
=> 1

Fixing a broken bike that's in the garage:

broken_bike
=> [#<Bike:0x00000101ab8a18 @broken=true>]
garage.repair(broken_bike)
=> [#<Bike:0x00000101ab8a18 @broken=false>]

BONUS: stealing a bike from one of the teachers:

evgeny.has_bike?
=> true
mario.steal_bike_from(evgeny)
=> "Mario stole a bike from Evgeny!"
evgeny.has_bike?
=> false

Issues to be resolved:

• Person can steal a broken bike
• Docking stations can release a broken bike to a person