5. Object-Oriented Programming with Ruby

Activity 5.01: Voting Application for Employee of the Month

Solution

1. Open the Terminal and clone the Lightweight Terminal Framework from GitHub:

   git clone https://github.com/PacktWorkshops/The-Ruby-Workshop/tree/master/Chapter05/Activity5.01/framework

2. Implement the VotingMachine model class:

   voting_machine.rb

   1  class VotingMachine
   2    attr_reader :month, :year, :results
   3  
   4    class InvalidVote < Exception; end
   5  
   6    def initialize(month, year)
   7      @month = month
   8      @year = year
   9      @results = {}
   10   end
   11 
   12   def record_vote(voter, votee)
   13     raise InvalidVote unless valid_vote?(voter, votee)
   14     results[votee] ||= 0
   15   &...