Gist for the World Cup geeklet @ http://softwareforgood.com/hello-world-cup/

world_cup.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'json'
require 'httparty'

BASE_URL = "http://worldcup.sfg.io/"

def get_json(url)
  response = HTTParty.get(url)
  json = JSON.parse(response.body)

  return json
end

def prepare_matches(matches)
  matches.each do |match|
    home_team = match["home_team"]
    away_team = match["away_team"]

    format_board(home_team, away_team)
  end
end

def format_board(home, away)
  print "#{away["code"]}" + " " * 19 + "#{home["code"]}"
  print "\n" * 2
  print "#{away["goals"]}  -  #{home["goals"]}"
  print "\n" * 2
end

def today
  url = "#{BASE_URL}matches/today"
  matches = get_json(url)

  if matches.count == 0
    puts "No matches today"
  else
    prepare_matches(matches)
  end
end

today