[#289458] Parsing JSON (#155) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

86 messages 2008/02/01
[#289675] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — steve <oksteev@...> 2008/02/03

Hey guys

[#289709] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/04

On Feb 3, 2008 8:14 AM, steve <oksteev@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#289712] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — Clifford Heath <no@...> 2008/02/04

Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#289715] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/04

On Feb 3, 2008 6:25 PM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:

[#289718] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — Clifford Heath <no@...> 2008/02/04

Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#289722] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/04

On Feb 3, 2008 6:39 PM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:

[#289557] Comparing Active Record VS Datamapper...? — Softmind Technology <softmindtechnology@...>

Hello,

15 messages 2008/02/02
[#289633] Re: Comparing Active Record VS Datamapper...? — Ilan Berci <coder68@...> 2008/02/02

Softmind Technology wrote:

[#289636] Re: Comparing Active Record VS Datamapper...? — "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...> 2008/02/03

On 2/2/08 3:56 PM, "Ilan Berci" <coder68@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#289572] Extracting vowels and consonants using regular expression — Dondi <Donovan.Dillon@...>

I am trying to parse a string and extract all vowels and consonants

10 messages 2008/02/02

[#289579] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>

FastRI is an alternative to the ri documentation browser for Ruby.

21 messages 2008/02/02
[#289683] Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — botp <botpena@...> 2008/02/03

On Feb 3, 2008 1:07 AM, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:

[#290164] Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2008/02/06

On Feb 3, 2008, at 07:40 AM, botp wrote:

[#291478] Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...> 2008/02/18

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:52:20AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:

[#291493] Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — James Gray <james@...> 2008/02/18

On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:53 AM, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:

[#289674] Ruby for game programming — t3chn0n3rd <darrin_allen@...>

Is anyone using Ruby for game programming?

17 messages 2008/02/03

[#289859] how to say # in ruby — Dan Ford <wade@...>

I'm accustomed to usenet as opposed to whatever this is.

22 messages 2008/02/04

[#289900] Introducing Waves - Web App Framework — Dan Yoder <dan@...>

I am pleased to announce the first beta release of Waves, an open-

32 messages 2008/02/05
[#290017] Re: [ANN] Introducing Waves - Web App Framework — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2008/02/06

Dan Yoder wrote:

[#290001] Computer Science Problems — markonlinux@...

Hi all,

33 messages 2008/02/05

[#290020] Ruby type-safe? Ruby strongly/weakly typed? Ruby pitfalls? — "rule.rule.rule@..." <rule.rule.rule@...>

Hi,

36 messages 2008/02/06

[#290022] simple ruby proxy server? — Dt Town <dtown22@...>

I am trying to right at application which will simply record the headers

13 messages 2008/02/06

[#290167] Array Practice — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>

As some of you may know from previous threads im trying to practice

27 messages 2008/02/06

[#290195] info on block arguments — Russell Me <russ@...>

I'm trying to pick up ruby and I'm impressed by all the cool stuff it

24 messages 2008/02/07

[#290208] idiom I've not seen before — Rob Saul <wyrd@...>

12 messages 2008/02/07

[#290244] Parsing JSON (#155) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

We saw a large variety of solutions for this week's problem. Many of them used

13 messages 2008/02/07

[#290245] using net::ssh shell to sudo to another user and execute commands — "wbsurfver@..." <wbsurfver@...>

11 messages 2008/02/07

[#290272] is lots of files with Threads faster? — Chris Richards <evilgeenius@...>

Im required to open 50+ files and parse the data in them. WOuld using

11 messages 2008/02/07

[#290296] BigDecimal.new('15.25') == 15.25, false ?? — Henry Jones <mathieu.houle@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2008/02/07

[#290328] trouble with FileUtils.rm() -- Invalid arguement error — an an <dtown22@...>

I have been screwing with this for the last hour, and I still cant get

12 messages 2008/02/08

[#290374] Internal Rate of Return (#156) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

47 messages 2008/02/08

[#290483] Beginner help - txt dungeon — Jonathon Hartoon <ezrickknight@...>

Hi. I have tried to learn other programming languages before and ruby

20 messages 2008/02/09

[#290716] non case sensitive searching — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>

If i want to see if a list contains a particular word how would i go

15 messages 2008/02/11

[#290735] Rev/actor TCP monkey patching — fedzor <fedzor@...>

Short and sweet -

13 messages 2008/02/11

[#290825] How do C programmers do unit testing? — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>

This may seem like a silly question, but how do C programmers (assume

13 messages 2008/02/12

[#290931] Robert's Ruby Riddle: Local or Method — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>

Hi list I was just thinking it might fun to present some of Ruby's

10 messages 2008/02/13

[#290982] ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>

I recently upgraded to ruby 1.8.6 on mac os x 10.4.7. I had ruby tk

47 messages 2008/02/13
[#290994] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...> 2008/02/13

On 2008-02-13, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#291001] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/14

Jeremy Henty wrote:

[#291006] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...> 2008/02/14

From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>

[#291014] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/14

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:

[#291447] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...> 2008/02/18

From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>

[#291459] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/18

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:

[#291519] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/18

On Feb 18, 2008, at 2:52 AM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291529] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/18

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291556] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/19

On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:05 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291567] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/19

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291601] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/19

On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:28 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291603] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/19

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291621] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/19

On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:05 AM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291626] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/19

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291637] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...> 2008/02/19

[#291707] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/20

John Joyce wrote:

[#291742] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/20

On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:41 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291747] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/20

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291819] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...> 2008/02/20

On Feb 20, 2008 8:59 AM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#291846] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...> 2008/02/20

[#291967] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/21

John Joyce wrote:

[#292774] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Tim Ferrell <s0nspark@...> 2008/02/27

7stud -- wrote:

[#292964] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/29

Tim Ferrell wrote:

[#292971] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Tim Ferrell <s0nspark@...> 2008/02/29

7stud -- wrote:

[#292992] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Tim Ferrell <s0nspark@...> 2008/02/29

Tim Ferrell wrote:

[#290985] my noob "numbering lines" programe. How to improve? — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>

Give us hints on how to improve this program. If you want to show your

11 messages 2008/02/13

[#291013] Memcached: Dealing with unknown keys — Tony Garcia <tony23@...>

I was wondering if there is a way to handle reading keys when you don't

14 messages 2008/02/14

[#291039] Internal Rate of Return (#156) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

Solving the IRR equation is essentially a matter of computational guesswork.

15 messages 2008/02/14

[#291084] object specific methods and id — UpsNDowns <tnospamhomas@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2008/02/14
[#291088] Re: object specific methods and id — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/14

UpsNDowns wrote:

[#291089] Re: object specific methods and id — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2008/02/14

[#291184] Re: object specific methods and id — UpsNDowns <tnospamhomas@...> 2008/02/15

Thanks for the reply.

[#291261] Re: object specific methods and id — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2008/02/16

[#291302] Re: object specific methods and id — UpsNDowns <tnospamhomas@...> 2008/02/16

Gary Wright wrote:

[#291141] The Smallest Circle (#157) — Matthew D Moss <matthew.moss@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz 2:

61 messages 2008/02/15

[#291192] Proper way to RDoc markup? — Serg Koren <skoren@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2008/02/15

[#291269] Alter String base class to perform new (private methods) before returning itself when called by print statements — "Steven G. Harms" <steven.harms@...>

class String

8 messages 2008/02/16

[#291280] GC error ? — Piotr Sawicki <piotr.sawicki@...>

Run this program and observe memory usage.

26 messages 2008/02/16
[#291584] Re: GC error ? — "evanwebb@..." <evanwebb@...> 2008/02/19

On Feb 16, 4:12m, Piotr Sawicki <piotr.sawi...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#291281] TRAC - Trac, Project Leads, Python, and Mr. Noah Kantrowitz (sanitizer) — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>

Essence:

14 messages 2008/02/16

[#291354] Slide Show v0.1 - A Free Web Alternative to PowerPoint and KeyNote in Ruby Now Live — "Gerald Bauer" <geraldbauer2007@...>

Hello,

12 messages 2008/02/17

[#291381] displaying user inputed arrays — Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@...>

[code]

36 messages 2008/02/17
[#291405] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — Wally T Terrible <wally.terrible@...> 2008/02/17

I'm not entirely sure what you intend to do. If you wanted to get five

[#291424] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...> 2008/02/17

Wally T Terrible wrote:

[#291858] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/02/20

On Feb 17, 2008 9:18 AM, Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@gmail.com> wrote:

[#291877] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/02/20

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:

[#291884] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@...> 2008/02/20

Thanks that works!

[#291887] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@...> 2008/02/20

Isaac Toothyxdip wrote:

[#291899] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/02/20

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@gmail.com> wrote:

[#291515] Connecting to HyperTerminal — Active View <active.view@...>

Hi all...

16 messages 2008/02/18
[#291525] Re: Connecting to HyperTerminal — Ben Bleything <ben@...> 2008/02/18

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008, Active View wrote:

[#291630] Object#freeze as a basis for caching of method results? — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>

Hello, ruby-talk.

12 messages 2008/02/19

[#291664] ||= [] idiom — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>

I often make use of this idiom to add something to an array in a hash of arrays:

24 messages 2008/02/19

[#291677] Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ? — tom_33 <tomjbr.56770318@...>

I am very new to Ruby and my question is about trying to understand

22 messages 2008/02/19

[#291682] HELP: Need to continue the loop after the exception — mirth <mirthcyy@...>

hi guys,

12 messages 2008/02/19

[#291717] IP Address to Decimal - is an one-liner possible? — "Tiago Pinto" <thpinto@...>

Hi guys,

22 messages 2008/02/20

[#291774] What does *args do? — Stedwick <philip.brocoum@...>

I sometimes see funcs declared with def fun (blah, *args)

14 messages 2008/02/20

[#291853] 32bit vs 64bit vs UML performance — Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>

I've run the QUIZ benchmark on several systems to check their relative

17 messages 2008/02/20

[#291990] beginner's problem with sqlite3 — Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>

It would be helpful if the sqlite3-ruby documentation offered one or two

15 messages 2008/02/21

[#292056] Where does instance_eval _magically_ set the variable to? — Andrew Chen <hangfei@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2008/02/21

[#292080] Newbie Mem Leak Issue — Keith Barr <keith.barr@...>

I am fairly new to Ruby and a program that I have created seems to have

14 messages 2008/02/21

[#292186] gsub("\\", "\\\\") seems unintuitive — John Woods <jqwoods@...>

The following confusing behavior is noted in the pickaxe book (2nd ed)

11 messages 2008/02/22

[#292250] ANN: Teach yourself Ruby - the hard way! — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>

A frequent question from Ruby newcomers is "Okay, I've read the

12 messages 2008/02/23

[#292269] Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...>

Hi folks,

118 messages 2008/02/23
[#292362] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — furtive.clown@... 2008/02/24

[#292366] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2008/02/24

[#292961] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — Trans <transfire@...> 2008/02/29

[#292978] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/29

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#292274] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/23

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:

[#292385] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — James Gray <james@...> 2008/02/25

On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#292281] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2008/02/23

Avdi Grimm wrote:

[#292514] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@...> 2008/02/25

On 24/02/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

[#292584] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Jones, Brian - McClatchy Interactive" <bjones@...> 2008/02/26

I'd be at least a little interested in potentially offering developers

[#292594] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — Trans <transfire@...> 2008/02/26

[#292601] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — James Britt <james.britt@...> 2008/02/26

Trans wrote:

[#292603] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...> 2008/02/26

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:

[#292368] Suprising behaviour with "def property=" method — "Farrel Lifson" <farrel.lifson@...>

I had a bit of a surprise with the following

14 messages 2008/02/24

[#292394] NoMethodError: private method `to_date' — Sukeerthi Adiga <sukeerthiadiga@...>

Loading development environment.

12 messages 2008/02/25

[#292398] Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>

I wrote up an article on Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb that

58 messages 2008/02/25
[#294446] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/13

Hi,

[#294479] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2008/03/13

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:02:52AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#294491] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/13

Hi,

[#294551] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2008/03/14

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:43:28AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#294559] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/14

Hi,

[#294591] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Tanaka Akira <akr@...> 2008/03/14

In article <E1JaB7P-0000Zc-QP@x61.netlab.jp>,

[#294639] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/15

Hi,

[#294917] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Tanaka Akira <akr@...> 2008/03/18

In article <E1JaM9H-0000jj-AB@x61.netlab.jp>,

[#295093] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2008/03/19

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:04:40PM +0900, Tanaka Akira wrote:

[#292540] Math problem — grandmabeckie@...

I am try to help my daughter:

25 messages 2008/02/26

[#292704] Getting number of days in a month — Shandy Nantz <shandybleu@...>

This is probably an easy question but I am trying to get at the number

26 messages 2008/02/27

[#292781] MacRuby — "Laurent Sansonetti" <laurent.sansonetti@...>

Hi,

16 messages 2008/02/28

[#292795] Need a regex searching html code — Chirantan <chirantan.rajhans@...>

I have an html code into string. I want to retrieve the content (Can

18 messages 2008/02/28

[#292816] proc.new and return — S2 <email@...>

I am sure this is a really easy question for most of you, but i was not

15 messages 2008/02/28

[#292839] Proposed Solutions - Was [ Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby ] — hemant <gethemant@...>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:55 PM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:

17 messages 2008/02/28

[#292860] Named sprintf parameters — Trans <transfire@...>

I have a question and perhaps a bit of challenge for those with mad

15 messages 2008/02/28

[#292865] constants defined in Kernel are also defined in Object? — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>

This seems peculiar to me:

15 messages 2008/02/28

[#293044] making a monthly calendar... — Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@...>

Hey

25 messages 2008/02/29
[#293088] Re: making a monthly calendar... — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/03/01

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@helenius.dk> wrote:

[#293090] Re: making a monthly calendar... — Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@...> 2008/03/01

Todd Benson wrote:

[#293092] Re: making a monthly calendar... — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/03/01

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@helenius.dk> wrote:

[#293223] Re: making a monthly calendar... — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/03/03

Oh my goodness! A thousand apologies. I gave you a rotating month. See below.

[#293264] Re: making a monthly calendar... — Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@...> 2008/03/03

So I ended up with:

Re: Beginner help - txt dungeon

From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-02-09 19:09:25 UTC
List: ruby-talk #290527
On Feb 8, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Jonathon Hartoon wrote:

> I have tried to learn other programming languages before and ruby
> was the first one that really stuck.

Welcome to Ruby.

> Anyways, I own both Prgramming Ruby & Beginning Ruby.  The later has  
> a tutorial for making a text dungeon.  I expanded the example in the  
> book to accept commands from a user and load new maps from a txt file.

Excellent work.  Modifying code like this is a terrific first step.

> I am now trying to build in an inventory system, and smashing my  
> face into the rocks.  I can't even come up with an acceptable way to  
> do it.

Actually, you are already very close

> Attachments:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/1409/Dungeon.rb

I've added some comments to try and give you new ideas.  Read through  
and see if I've helped.  If not, come back with more questions.

We will get you there.  Don't give up!  ;)

James Edward Gray II

Attachments (1)

Dungeon.rb (4.25 KB, text/x-ruby-script)
class Dungeon
  attr_accessor :player
  
  def run
    @player.location = @rooms[0].reference
    current_room.describe
    while true  # loop do
      @input_words = gets.chomp.downcase.split
      command @input_words[0]
    end
  end
  
  def create
    File.open("Rooms.txt").each do |line|
      rooms = line.split('~')
      # 
      # Lines like the following get a little messy.  The code is fragile and if
      # we want to change the file format, we will break a lot of things.  It's
      # usually better to refer to things by name, instead of position.  For
      # example, can you imagine a roome file like this:
      # 
      #   id:  cave_cell
      #   name:  Cave Cell
      #   description:   A small cell in the side of a cave wall.
      #                  The gate on the north side is open.
      #   exits:  north (cell_block_a1)
      #   items:  mkey, ...
      # 
      #   id:  cell_block_a1
      #   ...
      # 
      add_room(rooms[0].to_sym, rooms[1], rooms[2], { rooms[3].to_sym => rooms[4].to_sym, rooms[5].to_sym => rooms[6].to_sym, rooms[7].to_sym => rooms[8].to_sym, rooms[9].to_sym => rooms[10].to_sym })
    end
  end
  
  def move(direction)
    puts "\nYou go " + direction.to_s # puts "\nYou go #{direction}"
    @player.location = next_room(direction)
    current_room.describe
  end

  def next_room(direction)
    find_room(@player.location).connections[direction]
  end
  

  
  def current_room
    find_room(@player.location)
  end
  
  def find_room(reference)
    # 
    # You are using an Array as a Hash.  The following line could just be:
    # 
    #   @rooms[reference]  # using a Hash
    # 
    @rooms.detect { |room| room.reference == reference }
  end
    
  def initialize(player_name)
    @player = Player.new(player_name)
    @rooms = Array.new
    @input_words = Array.new
    create
    run
  end

  def add_room(reference, name, description, connections)
    @rooms << Room.new(reference, name, description, connections)
  end
  
  def command input
    # 
    # Some ideas for the following.  First, a case statement can be nice here:
    # 
    #   case input
    #   when "west"
    #     ...
    #   when "east"
    #     ...
    #   ...
    #   end
    # 
    # Another thought is to imagine you had code like this:
    # 
    #   @player.move_to( current_room.exits[input] )
    # 
    # Can you make something like that work?  exits() could just return a Hash.
    # 
    if input == "west"
      if next_room(:west) != :n
        move(:west)
      else
        puts "That direction is impassable"
      end
    end
    
    if input == "east"
      if next_room(:east) != :n
        move(:east)
      else
        puts "That direction is impassable"
      end
    end
    
    if input == "north"
      if next_room(:north) != :n
        move(:north)
      else
        puts "That direction is impassable"
      end
    end
    
    if input == "south"
      if next_room(:south) != :n
        move(:south)
      else
        puts "That direction is impassable"
      end
    end
    
    if input == "look"
      current_room.describe
    end
    if input == "inventory"
      @player.inventory
    end
    
  end
  
  class Player #.inventory
    attr_accessor :name, :location, :items
    
    def initialize(name)
      @name = name
      @items = Array.new
      
      #Temporary: Give player the key.
      @items << Item.new(:mkey)
    end
    
    # 
    # Adding to inventory isn't much harder than what you already have:

    # 
    #   def pickup(item)
    #     @items << item
    #   end
    # 
    # And later:
    # 
    #   @player.pickup(whatever)
    # 
    
    def inventory
      puts "\n  Inventory:"
      @items.each {|x| puts "\n", x.name}
    end
    
  end
  
  class Room #.describe
    attr_accessor :reference, :name, :description, :connections
    
    def initialize(reference, name, description, connections)
      @reference = reference
      @name = name
      @description = description
      @connections = connections
    end
    
    def describe
      puts "\n\n" + @name + "\nYou are in " + @description
    end
    
end
  class Item
    attr_accessor :type, :name
    
    def initialize(type)
      @type = type
      
      if @type == :mkey
        @name = "Main Dungeon Key"
      end
    end
  end
end

my_d = Dungeon.new("Jon")

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