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Accumulate
Implement the accumulate
operation, which, given a collection and an
operation to perform on each element of the collection, returns a new
collection containing the result of applying that operation to each element of
the input collection.
Given the collection of numbers:
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
And the operation:
- square a number (
x => x * x
)
Your code should be able to produce the collection of squares:
- 1, 4, 9, 16, 25
Check out the test suite to see the expected function signature.
Restrictions
Keep your hands off that collect/map/fmap/whatchamacallit functionality provided by your standard library! Solve this one yourself using other basic tools instead.
Advanced
It is typical to call #to_enum when defining methods for a generic Enumerable, in case no block is passed.
Here is an additional test you could add:
def test_accumulate_when_block_is_deferred
skip
accumulate_enumerator = [1, 2, 3].accumulate
accumulated_result = accumulate_enumerator.each do |number|
number * number
end
assert_equal [1, 4, 9], accumulated_result
end
For installation and learning resources, refer to the exercism help page.
For running the tests provided, you will need the Minitest gem. Open a terminal window and run the following command to install minitest:
gem install minitest
If you would like color output, you can require 'minitest/pride'
in
the test file, or note the alternative instruction, below, for running
the test file.
Run the tests from the exercise directory using the following command:
ruby accumulate_test.rb
To include color from the command line:
ruby -r minitest/pride accumulate_test.rb
Source
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Submitting Incomplete Solutions
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