amalgamifier.rb

# Impress your friends with your letterpress skillz through the power of Ruby, and the unix dictionary.
# You need to run this in Ruby 1.8.7
# @heavysixer 2012
 
def anagramify(str)
  anagrams = []
  chars = str.downcase.split(//)
  `cat /usr/share/dict/words`.each{|word|
      copy = word.strip!.downcase
      chars.each {|o| copy.slice!(o) }
      anagrams.push word.downcase if copy==""
   }
   return anagrams.uniq
end

puts "Enter a string of letters from the game board."

ARGF.each {|line|
    puts "anagramifying..."
    anagrams = anagramify(line)
    puts "sorted alphabetically"
    puts anagrams.sort{|a,b| b <=> a }.join(" ")
    puts "sorted by size"
    puts anagrams.sort{|a,b| b.size <=> a.size}.join(" ")
    puts "There are #{anagrams.size} partial or full anagrams."
}