Recently we saw an advertisement for a Rails Developer contract job in one famous Rails website. The potential client posted a small puzzle in Ruby and asked the potential candidates to solve and apply for it.
We thought we would reply to them in their style itself.
The below code was the email attachment we sent to them. Oops!.. Are we sharing lots of internal secrets.

require 'test/unit'
require 'base64'

class Application_Form

  #Small puzzle given by client
  def uptake_problem
    qualities = ["bXVzdCBiZSBhbiBhd2Vzb21l", "YXBwIGVuZ2luZWVy", "ZXhwZXJpZW5jZWQgaW4gcnVieS4="]
    uptake_job = qualities.inject(["You"]) do |quality, result|
      quality << Base64.decode64(result)
    end
    return uptake_job.join(' ')
  end

  #Spritle's answer
  def is_interested
    return Base64.decode64("WWVzIGFuZCBXZSBhcmUgaW50ZXJlc3RlZA==")
  end

  def is_skilled
    puts "We holds skills on:"
    puts "Ruby, ROR, TDD/BDD, Amazon EC2 & S3, SVN, GIT, Linux, Web 2.0, J2EE, Enterprise Java, Maven and related stacks  \n\n"
    return true
  end

  def is_agile
    puts "We practice Agile \n\n"
    return true
  end

  def is_blogging
    puts "We blog at http://www.spritle.com/blogs \n\n"
    return true
  end

  def is_contributing_opensource
    puts "Yes. We made two open source and we gonna make few more soon. \n\n"
    return true
  end

  def is_awareof_ejb_spring_hibernate_maven_stacks
    puts "A big YES. That is our foundation. Our founder is Agile Java Architect with 8 years experience.  \n\n"
    return true
  end

  def is_ready_for_interview
    puts "Yes. Reach us at Skype: 'balajidl23'. Lets talk...  \n\n"
    return true
  end
end

class TC_MyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

  def setup
    @application_form = Application_Form.new
  end

  # def teardown
  # end

  def test_a_interested
    puts "You said: " + @application_form.uptake_problem
    assert(@application_form.is_interested == "Yes and We are interested", "Interest not shown")
    puts "We say: " + "Yes and We are interested \n\n"
  end

  def test_b_agile
    puts "is_agile?"
    assert(@application_form.is_agile == true, "Nah. Agile check failed")
  end

  def test_c_is_skilled
    puts "is_skilled?"
    assert(@application_form.is_skilled == true, "Nah. Skill check failed")
  end

  def test_d_is_blogging
    puts "is_blogging?"
    assert(@application_form.is_blogging == true, "Nah. Not sharing knowledge")
  end

  def test_e_is_contributing_opensource
    puts "is contributing opensource?"
    assert(@application_form.is_contributing_opensource == true, "Shame. They dont dare to show their code to public")
  end

  def test_f_is_awareof_ejb_spring_hibernate_maven_stacks
    puts "is aware of ejb, spring, hibernate, maven stacks?"
    assert(@application_form.is_awareof_ejb_spring_hibernate_maven_stacks == true, "Darn.. They dont know Java.")
  end

  def test_g_is_ready_for_interview
    puts "is ready for interview?"
    assert(@application_form.is_ready_for_interview == true, "No. They are naive")
    return true
  end
end

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