Everybody loves the SuperBowl commercials! Last year, I hacked up a script to randomly generate items to create your own bingo cards. This year, I improved the script to actually generate the cards as a PDF file based on an excel sheet of bingo items.
Here it is:
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| puts "How many players?" | |
| players = gets.chomp.to_i | |
| puts "How many items?" | |
| items = gets.chomp.to_i | |
| (1..players).each do |i| | |
| puts "card #{i}" | |
| card = Array.new | |
| (1..5).each do |row| | |
| print " " | |
| (1..5).each do |col| | |
| if(row == 3 && col == 3) | |
| print " F " | |
| else | |
| begin | |
| next_num = rand(items) + 1 | |
| end while !card.index(next_num).nil? | |
| card << next_num | |
| print " " if next_num < 10 | |
| print next_num | |
| print " " | |
| end | |
| end | |
| print "\n" | |
| end | |
| print "\n" | |
| end |
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| equire 'prawn' | |
| require 'spreadsheet' | |
| items = [] | |
| Spreadsheet.open('bingo_items.xls').worksheet(0).each do |row| | |
| items << row[0] unless row[0].nil? | |
| end | |
| #items.each { |i| puts i } | |
| puts "How many players?" | |
| players = gets.chomp.to_i | |
| Prawn::Document.generate 'bingo_cards.pdf' do | |
| (1..players).each do |current_player| | |
| font_size 22 | |
| text "Commercial Bingo", :align => :center | |
| font_size 18 | |
| text "Super Bown XLVI", :align => :center | |
| move_down 15 | |
| font_size 16 | |
| text "Player #{current_player}" | |
| font_size 14 | |
| move_down 30 | |
| card = [[ "B", "I", "N", "G", "O"]] | |
| (1..5).each do |row| | |
| row_items = [] | |
| (1..5).each do |col| | |
| if(row == 3 && col == 3) | |
| row_items << "FREE SPACE" | |
| else | |
| begin | |
| next_num = rand(items.length) | |
| end while card.flatten.include?(items[ next_num ]) | |
| row_items << items[next_num] | |
| end | |
| end | |
| card << row_items | |
| end | |
| move_down 50 | |
| table card do | |
| width = 500 | |
| cells.valign = :center | |
| cells.align = :center | |
| row(0).font_style = :bold | |
| row(0).size = 16 | |
| #free space | |
| row(3).column(2).border_width = 2 | |
| row(3).column(2).font_style = :bold | |
| end | |
| start_new_page unless current_player == players | |
| end | |
| end |
Check out the second comment for more info.
– Chris
