ehwus/birthdays

A TDD exercise

Birthdays 🥳

A Ruby command line application that can

• Store friends’ birthdays and keep track of them.
• See them all at once with their names and birthdays each on a line in a tidy format
• Check whose birthday it is today.

Quick start

> git clone https://github.com/ehwus/birthdays.git
> cd birthdays
> bundle install
> ruby ./lib/main.rb

Instructions

• Follow the prompts to add people to your database or to print the required information out..

Techniques Used

This was mainly an exercise in Test Driven Development, so I've ensured that all main methods and classes are fully tested in the specifications in ./spec. Use the 'rspec' command to run these yourself.

I have also been learning encapsulation, so I've divided the app into a series of classes:

• Person - the basic object for the exercise, containing variables for both name and date of birth.
• Directory - a class to store Persons, with some higher level methods like #todays_birthdays to perform operations on the stored Persons.
• Birthday - the main class for the end user, provides a way for the other classes to be interacted with through stdin/stdout.