phase 0 unit 2 week 1boggle class challenge

0.2.1-boggle_class_from_methods.rb

=begin
        REFACTOR ON 2/25 AFTER READING 2ND CHAPTER OF "Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby"

        I'm going to attempt to add in an approach that utilizes a Struct for the board so that I can let people
        specify rows and columns as they see them using numbers 1-4 instead of 0-3 (so that they're not even 
        thinking about the underlying multi-dimensional array data structure when making calls to a BoggleBoard 
        object).  This is also an attempt at refactoring so that methods outside of #get_row, #get_col, and #get_coord
        don't need to worry about knowing what data structure is used to hold the board information: they can just 
        request the info they want.  According to POODR, this really helps keep the code as changeable as possible 
        while minimizing the likelihood of a change adversely affecting other areas.

        get_diagonal pseudocode:
        #if coords are diagonals and valid
        # => determine row direction and column direction
        # => form array of inclusive coordinates in the diagonal
        # => map new array from get_coord'ing diagonal coordinate array and return it
=end

=begin
  PSEUDOCODE FOR BONUS QUESTION
  after going through the exercise and then "f@#! it, it's friday"-ing the bonus, it bugged 
  me that I did, so I doodled on some paper and found a relationship that I think makes this 
  bonus question much more approachable:

  for any valid diagonal pair of coordinates, the following is true:
    - The quotient of (end_coord.first - start_coord.first) and (end_coord.last - start_coord.last) is 1 or -1.
    - Therefore, the absolute value of this quotient will always be 1.
    - If the value deried from this absolute value quotient is anything except 1, then the pair of coordinates
      are not valid diagonals.

  I can implement #are_diagonals?(start_coord, end_coord) to check for valid diagonal coordinate pairs before 
  doing any work for generating the diagonal array of values between(inclusive) the two values.

  The differences also give me the length of the translations for the row and columns and the directions I need 
  to go as well.

  I can use the start, a current, and the end coordinates to grab the diagonal.  I start off the diagonal array with 
  the value at start and, while current != end, push the value at current onto the diagonal array and set current to 
  the next coordinate value based on the direction I need to go.
=end
  

class BoggleBoard
  @@BOARD_LOWERBOUND = 1
  @@BOARD_UPPERBOUND = 4

  attr_reader :rows

  def initialize(board)
    @rows = rowify(board)
  end

  def create_word(*coords)
    coords.collect{|coord| get_coord(coord)}.join("")
  end

  def get_row(row)
    rows[row-1].values
  end

  def get_col(col)
    rows.collect{|row| row.send("col_#{col}")}
  end

  def get_coord(coord)
    rows[coord.first-1].send("col_#{coord.last}") if valid_coordinate?(coord)
  end

  def get_diagonal(start_coord, end_coord)
    if are_diagonals?(start_coord, end_coord) && valid_coordinate?(start_coord) && valid_coordinate?(end_coord)
      diagonal_coords = build_diagonal_coordinates(start_coord, end_coord)
      diagonal_coords.collect{|coord| get_coord(coord)}
    else
      "Invalid Diagonal Coordinates"
    end
  end

  def are_diagonals?(start_coord, end_coord)
    begin
      1 == (row_difference(start_coord, end_coord).to_f / col_difference(start_coord, end_coord).to_f).abs
    rescue ZeroDivisionError
      false
    end
  end

  def valid_coordinate?(coord)
    coord.all?{|value| value >= @@BOARD_LOWERBOUND && value <= @@BOARD_UPPERBOUND}
  end

  private

  Row = Struct.new(:col_1,:col_2,:col_3,:col_4)
  def rowify(board)
    board.collect{|row| Row.new(row[0],row[1],row[2],row[3])}
  end

  def build_diagonal_coordinates(start_coord, end_coord)
    row_direction = row_direction(start_coord, end_coord)
    col_direction = col_direction(start_coord, end_coord)
    diagonal_coords = [start_coord]
    current_coord = start_coord
    until current_coord == end_coord
      current_coord = [current_coord.first + row_direction, current_coord.last + col_direction]
      diagonal_coords << current_coord
    end
    diagonal_coords
  end

  def row_direction(start_coord, end_coord)
    row_difference(start_coord, end_coord) / row_difference(start_coord, end_coord).abs
  end

  def col_direction(start_coord, end_coord)
    col_difference(start_coord, end_coord) / col_difference(start_coord, end_coord).abs
  end

  def row_difference(start_coord, end_coord)
    end_coord.first - start_coord.first
  end

  def col_difference(start_coord, end_coord)
    end_coord.last - start_coord.last
  end
end

dice_grid = [["b", "r", "a", "e"],
             ["i", "o", "d", "t"],
             ["e", "c", "l", "r"],
             ["t", "a", "k", "e"]]

boggle_board = BoggleBoard.new(dice_grid)

# implement tests for each of the methods here:
puts "create_word tests"
puts boggle_board.create_word([2,3], [2,2], [3,2], [4,3]) == "dock" #=> returns "dock"
puts boggle_board.create_word([3,2], [2,2], [2,3], [1,4]) == "code" #=> returns "code"  
puts boggle_board.create_word([1,2], [1,3], [2,3]) == "rad"  #=> returns "rad"
puts boggle_board.create_word([1,1], [2,1], [2,2]) == "bio"  #=> returns "bio"
puts boggle_board.create_word([4,1], [4,2], [3,3], [4,3]) == "talk"  #=> returns "talk"

puts "get_row and get_col tests"
puts boggle_board.get_row(1) == ["b", "r", "a", "e"] #{}"[\"b\", \"r\", \"a\", \"e\"]" 
puts boggle_board.get_row(2) == ["i", "o", "d", "t"] #{}"[\"i\", \"o\", \"d\", \"t\"]"  #=>  
puts boggle_board.get_row(3) == ["e", "c", "l", "r"] #{}"[\"e\", \"c\", \"l\", \"r\"]"  #=>  
puts boggle_board.get_row(4) == ["t", "a", "k", "e"] #{}"[\"t\", \"a\", \"k\", \"e\"]"  #=>  
puts boggle_board.get_col(1) == ["b", "i", "e", "t"] #{}"[\"b\", \"i\", \"e\", \"t\"]"  #=>  
puts boggle_board.get_col(2) == ["r", "o", "c", "a"] #{}"[\"r\", \"o\", \"c\", \"a\"]"  #=>  
puts boggle_board.get_col(3) == ["a", "d", "l", "k"] #{}"[\"a\", \"d\", \"l\", \"k\"]"  #=>  
puts boggle_board.get_col(4) == ["e", "t", "r", "e"] #{}"[\"e\", \"t\", \"r\", \"e\"]"  #=>  

puts "get_coord tests"
puts boggle_board.get_coord([4,3]) == "k"  #=> k
puts boggle_board.get_coord([1,2]) == "r"  #=> r
puts boggle_board.get_coord([2,4]) == "t"  #=> t
puts boggle_board.get_coord([3,1]) == "e"  #=> e

puts "valid_coordinate? tests"
puts boggle_board.valid_coordinate?([4,3]) == true
puts boggle_board.valid_coordinate?([-1, 3]) == false
puts boggle_board.valid_coordinate?([0,4]) == false
puts boggle_board.valid_coordinate?([4,0]) == false
puts boggle_board.valid_coordinate?([1,4]) == true

puts "are_diagonals? tests"
puts boggle_board.are_diagonals?([2,2],[4,4]) == true
puts boggle_board.are_diagonals?([4,2],[3,1]) == true
puts boggle_board.are_diagonals?([2,4],[3,1]) == false
puts boggle_board.are_diagonals?([1,3],[4,3]) == false

puts "diagonal tests"
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([4,1],[1,4]) == ["t","c","d","e"]
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([4,3],[2,1]) == ["k","c","i"]
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([4,4],[1,1]) == ["e","l","o","b"]
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([3,2],[2,1]) == ["c","i"]
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([2,2],[4,4]) == ["o","l","e"]
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([3,1],[4,2]) == ["e","a"]
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([2,4],[4,2]) == ["t","l","a"]

puts "invalid tests"
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([4,1],[4,1]) == "Invalid Diagonal Coordinates"
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([1,1],[1,1]) == "Invalid Diagonal Coordinates"
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([2,2],[4,3]) == "Invalid Diagonal Coordinates"
puts boggle_board.get_diagonal([2,4],[3,1]) == "Invalid Diagonal Coordinates"