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Returning Books

Part of the Object Oriented Programming section of Coddy's Ruby journey. Lesson 52 of 57.

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Easy

Add the RETURN command. Keep every command from the previous steps working exactly as before.

  • RETURN name id: reply no member bo or no book 9 as for borrowing; if the member does not hold that book reply ada does not have Dune; otherwise remove the loan from the member, make the book available and reply ada returned Dune.

The supplied code passes every input line to library.handle(line) and prints each returned reply on its own line. Member names are single lower-case words, book ids are whole numbers, and the input holds only the commands described so far. Any other command replies unknown command.

Your code goes in book.rb, member.rb and library.rb. main.rb holds the supplied input/output code and cannot be edited.

Try it yourself

require_relative 'book'
require_relative 'member'
require_relative 'library'

# Supplied input/output code: keep it as it is
input = []
while (line = gets)
  input << line.chomp
end
library = Library.new
input.each do |line|
  library.handle(line).each { |reply| puts reply }
end

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