Kata04: Data Munging - Part One: Weather Data http://codekata.com/kata/kata04-data-munging/

README.md

In weather.dat you’ll find daily weather data for Morristown, NJ for June 2002. Download this text file, then write a program to output the day number (column one) with the smallest temperature spread (the maximum temperature is the second column, the minimum the third column).

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weather.dat

  Dy MxT   MnT   AvT   HDDay  AvDP 1HrP TPcpn WxType PDir AvSp Dir MxS SkyC MxR MnR AvSLP

   1  88    59    74          53.8       0.00 F       280  9.6 270  17  1.6  93 23 1004.5
   2  79    63    71          46.5       0.00         330  8.7 340  23  3.3  70 28 1004.5
   3  77    55    66          39.6       0.00         350  5.0 350   9  2.8  59 24 1016.8
   4  77    59    68          51.1       0.00         110  9.1 130  12  8.6  62 40 1021.1
   5  90    66    78          68.3       0.00 TFH     220  8.3 260  12  6.9  84 55 1014.4
   6  81    61    71          63.7       0.00 RFH     030  6.2 030  13  9.7  93 60 1012.7
   7  73    57    65          53.0       0.00 RF      050  9.5 050  17  5.3  90 48 1021.8
   8  75    54    65          50.0       0.00 FH      160  4.2 150  10  2.6  93 41 1026.3
   9  86    32*   59       6  61.5       0.00         240  7.6 220  12  6.0  78 46 1018.6
  10  84    64    74          57.5       0.00 F       210  6.6 050   9  3.4  84 40 1019.0
  11  91    59    75          66.3       0.00 H       250  7.1 230  12  2.5  93 45 1012.6
  12  88    73    81          68.7       0.00 RTH     250  8.1 270  21  7.9  94 51 1007.0
  13  70    59    65          55.0       0.00 H       150  3.0 150   8 10.0  83 59 1012.6
  14  61    59    60       5  55.9       0.00 RF      060  6.7 080   9 10.0  93 87 1008.6
  15  64    55    60       5  54.9       0.00 F       040  4.3 200   7  9.6  96 70 1006.1
  16  79    59    69          56.7       0.00 F       250  7.6 240  21  7.8  87 44 1007.0
  17  81    57    69          51.7       0.00 T       260  9.1 270  29* 5.2  90 34 1012.5
  18  82    52    67          52.6       0.00         230  4.0 190  12  5.0  93 34 1021.3
  19  81    61    71          58.9       0.00 H       250  5.2 230  12  5.3  87 44 1028.5
  20  84    57    71          58.9       0.00 FH      150  6.3 160  13  3.6  90 43 1032.5
  21  86    59    73          57.7       0.00 F       240  6.1 250  12  1.0  87 35 1030.7
  22  90    64    77          61.1       0.00 H       250  6.4 230   9  0.2  78 38 1026.4
  23  90    68    79          63.1       0.00 H       240  8.3 230  12  0.2  68 42 1021.3
  24  90    77    84          67.5       0.00 H       350  8.5 010  14  6.9  74 48 1018.2
  25  90    72    81          61.3       0.00         190  4.9 230   9  5.6  81 29 1019.6
  26  97*   64    81          70.4       0.00 H       050  5.1 200  12  4.0 107 45 1014.9
  27  91    72    82          69.7       0.00 RTH     250 12.1 230  17  7.1  90 47 1009.0
  28  84    68    76          65.6       0.00 RTFH    280  7.6 340  16  7.0 100 51 1011.0
  29  88    66    77          59.7       0.00         040  5.4 020   9  5.3  84 33 1020.6
  30  90    45    68          63.6       0.00 H       240  6.0 220  17  4.8 200 41 1022.7
  mo  82.9  60.5  71.7    16  58.8       0.00              6.9          5.3

weather.rb

# Weather reader
class Weather
  WeatherRecord = Struct.new :day, :max, :min do
    def spread
      max - min
    end
  end

  def initialize(file)
    @weather_records = File.readlines(file).collect do |line|
      _, day, max_temp, min_temp = line.split(/\s+/)
      next if day.to_i.zero?
      WeatherRecord.new day.to_i, max_temp.to_i, min_temp.to_i
    end.reject(&:nil?)
  end

  # Find the day number with the smallest temperature spread
  def day_with_smallest_temp_spread
    @weather_records.min_by(&:spread).day
  end
end

weather_test.rb

require_relative 'weather'
require 'test/unit'

# general task test
class WeatherTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_day_with_smallest_temp_spread
    weather = Weather.new 'weather.dat'

    assert_equal(14, weather.day_with_smallest_temp_spread)
  end
end