Annoy

Like your annoying friend that asks you questions all the time.

Rudy uses Annoy to present the user with a simple question before continuing with a destructive action.

Attributes

answer[RW]

factor[RW]

flavor[RW]

period[RW]

system[RW]

writer[RW]

Public Class Methods

are_you_sure?(factor=:medium, flavor=:rand, writer=STDOUT) click to toggle source

Runs a challenge with the message, "Are you sure?" See: Annoy.challenge?

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 154
def Annoy.are_you_sure?(factor=:medium, flavor=:rand, writer=STDOUT)
  Annoy.challenge?("Are you sure?", factor, flavor, writer)
end

challenge?(msg="Please confirm.", factor=:medium, flavor=:rand, writer=STDOUT, period=nil) click to toggle source

Prints a question to writer and waits for a response on STDIN. It checks whether STDIN is connected a tty so it doesn't block on gets when there's no human around to annoy. It will return TRUE when STDIN is NOT connected to a tty (when STDIN.tty? returns false).

msg The message to print. Default: "Please confirm."

Returns true when the answer is correct, otherwise false.

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 113
def Annoy.challenge?(msg="Please confirm.", factor=:medium, flavor=:rand, writer=STDOUT, period=nil)
  return true unless STDIN.tty? # Humans only!
  return true if Annoy.skip?
  begin
    success = Timeout::timeout(period || @@period) do
      flavor = Annoy.get_flavor(flavor)
      question, answer = Annoy.question(factor, flavor)
      msg = "#{msg} To continue, #{Annoy.verb(flavor)} #{question}: "
      #writer.print msg
      #if ![:medium, :high, :insane].member?(factor) && flavor == :numeric
      #writer.print "(#{answer}) " 
      #writer.flush
      #end
      #response = Annoy.get_response(writer)
              
      highline = HighLine.new 
      response = highline.ask(msg) { |q| 
        q.echo = '*'             # Don't display response
        q.overwrite = true       # Erase the question afterwards
        q.whitespace = :strip    # Remove whitespace from the response
        q.answer_type = Integer  if flavor == :numeric
      }
      
      ret = (response == answer)
      writer.puts "Incorrect" unless ret
      ret
    end
  rescue Interrupt
    writer.puts $/, "Giving up!"
    false
  rescue Annoy::GiveUp => ex
    writer.puts $/, "Giving up!"
    false
  rescue Timeout::Error => ex
    writer.puts $/, "Times up!"
    false
  end
end

disable_skip() click to toggle source

Tells annoy to prompt for a response.

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 54
def Annoy.disable_skip; @@skip = false; end

enable_skip() click to toggle source

Calling this method tells Annoy to not prompt for a response. All questions will return true.

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 52
def Annoy.enable_skip; @@skip = true; end

get_user_input(msg, echo=nil, period=nil) click to toggle source

Get a response from the user. Returns the string as typed by the user with extraneous whitespace removed.

msg (required) text to display to user
echo (optional) character to display as user types. Used for hiding passwords.
period (optional) amount of time to wait.

NOTE: Annoy uses Highline to get user responses. If msg ends with a space character, Highline will not print a new line. If there is no space character Highline will print a new line.

Annoy.get_user_input("Password?")   # => Password?
                                    # => 'user types here'

Annoy.get_user_input("Password? ")  # => Password? 'user types here'

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 219
def Annoy.get_user_input(msg, echo=nil, period=nil)
  return unless STDIN.tty? # Only ask a question if there's a human
  return if Annoy.skip?
  response = nil
  begin
    success = Timeout::timeout(period || @@period) do
      highline = HighLine.new 
      response = highline.ask(msg) { |q| 
        unless echo.nil?        
          q.overwrite = true     # Erase the question afterwards
          q.echo = echo          # Don't display response
        end
        q.whitespace = :strip    # Remove whitespace from the response
      }
    end
  rescue Timeout::Error => ex
    puts $/, "Times up!"
  end
  response
end

new(opts={:factor=>:medium, :flavor=>:rand, :writer=>STDOUT, :period=>nil}) click to toggle source

factor annoyance factor, one of :low (default), :medium, :high, :insane
flavor annoyance flavor, one of :rand (default), :numeric, string
writer an IO object to write to. Default: STDERR
period the amount of time to wait in seconds. Default: 60

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 62
def initialize(opts={:factor=>:medium, :flavor=>:rand, :writer=>STDOUT, :period=>nil})
  @factor = opts[:factor]
  @flavor = Annoy.get_flavor(opts[:flavor])
  @writer = opts[:writer]
  @period = opts[:period] || @@period
  unless Annoy.respond_to?("#{@flavor}_question")
    raise "Hey, hey, hey. I don't know that flavor! (#{@flavor})" 
  end
end

numeric_question(factor=:medium) click to toggle source

Generates a rudimentary numeric equation in the form: (Integer OPERATOR Integer).
Returns [equation, answer]

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 95
def Annoy.numeric_question(factor=:medium)
  equation = answer = 0
  while answer < 10
    vals = [rand(@@randsize[factor])+1, 
            @@operators[factor][ rand(@@operators[factor].size) ],
            rand(@@randsize[factor])+1 ]
    equation = "(%d %s %d)" % vals
    answer = eval(equation)
  end
  [equation, answer]
end

pose_question(msg, regexp, writer=STDOUT, period=nil) click to toggle source

Prints a question to writer and waits for a response on STDIN. It checks whether STDIN is connected a tty so it doesn't block on gets. when there's no human around to annoy. It will return TRUE when STDIN is NOT connected to a tty or if writer is nil.

msg The question to pose to the user
regexp The regular expression to match the answer.

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 182
def Annoy.pose_question(msg, regexp, writer=STDOUT, period=nil)
  return true unless STDIN.tty? # Only ask a question if there's a human
  return true if Annoy.skip?
  return true if writer.nil?
  begin
    success = Timeout::timeout(period || @@period) do
      regexp &&= Regexp.new regexp
      highline = HighLine.new 
      response = highline.ask(msg) { |q| 
        q.echo = '*'             # Don't display response
        q.overwrite = true       # Erase the question afterwards
        q.whitespace = :strip    # Remove whitespace from the response
      }
      regexp.match(response)
    end
  rescue Timeout::Error => ex
    writer.puts $/, "Times up!"
    false
  end
end

proceed?(factor=:medium, flavor=:rand, writer=STDOUT) click to toggle source

Runs a challenge with the message, "Proceed?" See: Annoy.challenge?

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 160
def Annoy.proceed?(factor=:medium, flavor=:rand, writer=STDOUT)
  Annoy.challenge?("Proceed?", factor, flavor, writer)
end

question(factor=:medium, flavor=:rand) click to toggle source

A wrapper for string_question and numberic_question

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 80
def Annoy.question(factor=:medium, flavor=:rand)
  raise "Come on, you ruined the flavor!" unless flavor
  Annoy.send("#{flavor}_question", factor)
end

skip?() click to toggle source

Returns true of Annoy is in skip mode

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 56
def Annoy.skip?; @@skip; end

string_question(factor=:medium) click to toggle source

Generates a random string

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 86
def Annoy.string_question(factor=:medium)
  # Strings don't need to be evaluated so the answer is the
  # same as the question.
  str = strand @@strlen[factor]
  [str,str]
end

timed_display(msg, writer, period=nil) click to toggle source

Display msg for period seconds. NOTE: msg should be a short, single line. This is a naive approach which simply overwrites the current line.

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 243
def Annoy.timed_display(msg, writer, period=nil)
  return true unless STDIN.tty? # Only ask a question if there's a human
  if Annoy.skip?
    #writer.puts msg 
    return true
  end
  if writer.nil?
    sleep period+1
    return true
  end
  begin
    period ||= @@period
    success = Timeout::timeout(period) do
      writer.puts "Message will display for #{period} seconds"
      writer.print msg
      writer.flush if writer.respond_to?(:flush)
      sleep period+1
    end
  rescue Timeout::Error => ex
    writer.print "\r" << ' '*msg.size
  end
  
  true
end

Public Instance Methods

challenge?(msg="Please confirm.") click to toggle source

See: Annoy.challenge? Uses the value of @flavor, @factor, and @writer

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 166
def challenge?(msg="Please confirm.")
  Annoy.challenge?(msg, @factor, @flavor, @writer)
end

pose_question(msg, regexp) click to toggle source

See: Annoy.pose_question Uses the value of @writer

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 172
def pose_question(msg, regexp)
  Annoy.pose_question(msg, regexp, @writer)
end

question() click to toggle source

Generates and returns a question. The correct response is available as +@answer+.

# File lib/annoy.rb, line 74
def question
  q, @answer =Annoy.question(@factor, @flavor)
  q
end

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