Module: TinyCode::ClassMethods

Defined in:
lib/tiny_code.rb

Constant Summary collapse

RAND_CHARS = 
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" + "0123456789" + "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.to_normalized_string(text) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/tiny_code.rb', line 19

def self.to_normalized_string(text)
  words_to_omit = ["a", "to", "the", "of", "has", "have", "it", "is", "in", "on", "or", "but", "when", "be"]

  # strip all the html tags from the text data
  col_text = text.gsub(/(<[^>]*>)|\n|\t/s, ' ')

  # Removing capitalization
  col_text.downcase!
  # Removing potential problem characters
  col_text.gsub!(/\"|\'/, '')
  # Removing text inside parens
  col_text.gsub!(/\(.*?\)/,'')

  # Removing all other non-word characters
  col_text.gsub!(/\W/, ' ')

  column_words = []
  words = col_text.split(' ')
  words.each do |word|
    if !words_to_omit.include?(word)
      column_words << word
    end
  end

  #reducing the word list to limit column length
  if column_words.length > 5
    column_words.slice!(0, column_words.length - 5)
  end

  #re-assemble the string
  column_words.join("_")
end

Instance Method Details

#make_tiny_code ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/tiny_code.rb', line 7

def make_tiny_code
  random_string(10)
end

#random_string(len) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/tiny_code.rb', line 11

def random_string(len)
  rand_max = RAND_CHARS.size
  ret = "" 
  len.times{ ret << RAND_CHARS[rand(rand_max)] }
  ret 
end