wednesday homework beastie boys

beastie.rb

require 'highline/import'

beastie = {
  "1986" => "Licensed to Ill", "1989" => "Paul", "1992" => "Check Your Head",
  "1993" => "Ill Communication", "1998" => "Hello Nasty",
  "2004" => "To the 5 Boroughs", "2007" => "The Mix-Up",
  "2011" => "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two", "1994" => "Some Old Bullshit",
  "1996" => "The In Sound From Way Out!", "1999" => "Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science",
  "2005" => "Solid Gold Hits"
}
#sorting keys
beastie = Hash[beastie.sort]

#basic setup for both input types
years = beastie.keys
albums = beastie.values
sum = years.count

input = ask("Vat do you vant?")

if beastie[input] != nil
     album = beastie[input]
     year = beastie.key(album) # this is the long way of doing this, I could've
                               # just used @input, but I didn't realize that
                               # at the time
     both = "#{album}, #{year}"
     puts both
elsif input=="albums" or input=="all"
  i = 0
  puts ""
  sum.times do
       thatyear = years[i] + ", " + albums[i]
       puts thatyear
       puts ""
       i += 1
       end
  else
  puts "Invalid parameters, try '1986'"
end


#preparing to "skip" to the next hash item, I do this by
#using the key array (years) used above, later I'll use the key (string)
#to "summon" it's corresponding value back in the hash

year_index = years.find_index(input)
loop do
  continue = ask("Type 'next' to see the next album")
  puts ""
  break if continue != "next"
  year_index = year_index
  next_year_index = year_index += 1
  next_year = years[next_year_index]
  puts "#{beastie[next_year]}, #{next_year}"
  puts ""
end