a software poem for john langfeld

delang.rb

#! /usr/bin/ruby

pearls = <<~ENDOFPOEM.freeze
  Framed, Mounted and Preggers'
  22975
  6/19/19
  Sneaking out of the bedroom in the wee hours he sat,
  staring at digits and images and flummox and hope.
  Who stared back?
  01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000
  01000101 01110110 01101001 01101100 00100000
  01010001 01110101 01100101 01100101 01101110 00101110
ENDOFPOEM

# how else wouldst thy pearl be cast?
class Swine
  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end

  def cast(str)
    bytes = digest(str)
    excrete(bytes)
  end

  private

  def digest(str)
    str.scan(/([01]{8})/).flatten.map { |byte| byte.to_i(2).chr }.join
  end

  def excrete(bytes)
    "#{@name} oinks '#{bytes}'\n#{@name} laughs out loud."
  end
end

pig = Swine.new('stephan')
puts pig.cast(pearls)

╰─➤ ruby delang.rb
stephan oinks 'The Evil Queen.'
stephan laughs out loud.