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. 😀
[source language=”Ruby”]
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 https://www.spritle.com/blog \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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