Short String Packer

Implement a simple but effective compression scheme for short, simple strings

Important: Please DO NOT FORK this project to write your solution, because others will be able to see your solution

Download

If you have git setup and know how to use it, clone (DO NOT FORK) this project to your local machine:

$ git clone git@github.com:soumyaray/hw-data_packer.git

If you are not familiar with git, simply download the RAW version of each file. Click on each filename listed on Github, click the 'RAW' button, and then download that file.

Overview

In this assignment, you must write the guts of two methods found in the file short_string_packer.rb:

• The pack(str) method must take a string called str and return an Integer
• The unpack(packed) method must take an Integer called packed, decompress it and return the string that was originally compressed

Details

Types:

• str: A short String that only contains lowercase characters 'a' - 'z' (no spaces, digits, uppercase, symbols, etc.)
• packed: An integer of type Integer

Methods:

• pack(str): Realize that the 26 letters 'a'-'z' don't need to use all the bits available in a UTF-8 character. You can use this to compress a string by packing the bits of each character together:
  • take each letter of str, convert it to a number from 0-25
  • take the bits of each number have created and shift them appropriately, and use a binary operation to pack them together into a single Integer called packed
• unpack(packed): Reverse the process above by accepting a packed Integer and returning the reproduced String

Coding rules

• Do not use any external libraries (gems)
• Do not write code anywhere outside of the two methods of short_string_packer.rb
• Do not use any for/while loops. ONLY use .map, .each and so on.

Testing

Test your solution by running the test specification file:

$ ruby packer_spec.rb

As you write each method, different tests will pass or fail. Your final solution should see all tests passing:

$ ruby packer_spec.rb
Run options:

# Running:

.......

Finished in 0.001401s

7 runs, 7 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

Submission

** Do NOT submit a Github repository **

I will only take submissions of your version of the solution file short_string_packer.rb. Please follow the following directions:

• Complete the solution make sure all tests pass.
• Upload a copy of your solution file to gist.github.com
• On Canvas, submit a URL to your uploaded gist file.