Election Day

Preparation

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• Compete the activity below
• Push your solution to your fork
• Submit a pull request from your repository to the turingschool-examples repository
  • Make sure to put your name in your PR!
  • Please include a reflection on how this challenge went for you.

Iteration 1

Use TDD to create a Candidate class that responds to the following interaction pattern.

pry(main)> require './lib/candidate'
=> true

pry(main)> diana = Candidate.new({name: "Diana D", party: :democrat})
=> #<Candidate:0x00007fd83736dbe0...>

pry(main)> diana.name
=> "Diana D"

pry(main)> diana.party
=> :democrat

pry(main)> diana.votes
=> 0

pry(main)> diana.vote_for

pry(main)> diana.vote_for

pry(main)> diana.vote_for

pry(main)> diana.votes
=> 3

pry(main)> diana.vote_for

pry(main)> diana.votes
=> 4

Iteration 2

Use TDD to create a Race class that responds to the following interaction pattern.

The register_candidate! method must take a Hash as an argument and return an instance of Candidate.

pry(main)> require './lib/candidate'
=> true

pry(main)> require './lib/race'
=> true

pry(main)> race = Race.new("Texas Governor")
=> #<Race:0x00007f9edf307688...>

pry(main)> race.office
=> "Texas Governor"

pry(main)> race.candidates
=> []

pry(main)> candidate1 = race.register_candidate({name: "Diana D", party: :democrat})
=> #<Candidate:0x00007f9edf376c90...>

pry(main)> candidate1.class
=> Candidate

pry(main)> candidate1.name
=> "Diana D"

pry(main)> candidate1.party
=> :democrat

pry(main)> candidate2 = race.register_candidate({name: "Roberto R", party: :republican})
=> #<Candidate:0x00007f9edf386780...>

pry(main)> race.candidates
=> [#<Candidate:0x00007f9edf376c90...>, #<Candidate:0x00007f9edf386780...>]

Iteration 3

Use TDD to create an Election class that satisfies the following requirements.

You have been contacted by the local government to create a program that helps track their elections by organizing registered candidates and their votes.

Method Name	Return Value
#new(year)	An Election object that has an attribute of year (as a string).
#year	The year of the election (string).
#races	An array of Race objects.
#add_race(race)	An array of Race objects.
#candidates	An array of all Candidate objects in the election.
#vote_counts	A hash with each candidate's name as a key and their count of votes as the value.

Iteration 4

Use TDD to implement the following methods on the Race class.

The local government agency has contacted you about compiling addition information about each of the races.

Method Name	Return Value
#open?	A boolean indicating whether the race is open or not. A race should be open by default.
#close!	Close the race (should no longer be open).
#winner	false if the race is still open. It should return the candidate with the most votes if not open. If there is a tie, it should return any candidate with the highest number of votes.
#tie?	A boolean indicating if two or more candidates received the highest number of votes.

Use TDD to implement the following methods on the Election class.

Additionally, the local government would like you to expand the information they have about their elections.

Method Name	Return Value
#winners	An array of the Candidate objects that represents the winner from each race. If the race is a tie or is still open, no winner should be returned for that race.