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The Challenge

Create an application that can read in pairs of dates in the following format -

DD MM YYYY, DD MM YYYY

Validate the input data, and compute the difference between the two dates in days.

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# DISCLAIMER: Beer was consumed

# Need to make assertions about ActiveRecord query messages applied to
# a model but don't want to include AR as a dependency? Feeling yolo?

# I had that situation lately with a gem that takes params and uses macros
# to build a scoped relation (github.com/hooroo/query_ar), so I cooked this up.

# Usage is as follows.

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# A. Less nested contexts, clearer object collaboration at the cost of repetition

describe PlaceParameters do

  describe '#sort_by' do

    it 'concatenates the sort_by and sort_dir params' do
      params = { sort_by: 'name', sort_dir: 'asc' }
      sort_by = PlaceParameters.new(params).sort_by
      expect(sort_by).to match /^name asc$/i

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require 'spec_helper'

describe "Artists to releases relationship" do

  before(:all) do
    @kanye = FactoryGirl.create(:artist, :name => 'Kanye West')
    @jz = FactoryGirl.create(:artist, :name => 'Jay Z')
    @watch_the_throne = FactoryGirl.create(:release, :name => 'Watch the Throne')
    @dropout = FactoryGirl.create(:release, :name => 'The College Dropout')
  end