Comparing Words

lexicon.rb

 class Lexicon
   
   #Arrays that holds the words to compare
   @directions = %w{south west east north}
   @verbs = %w{go kill eat play say talk jump fight throw smile hit punch climb}
   @nouns = %w{bear princess penguin mole cherry lollipop pillow}
   @stop_words = %w{the in of}
   
   #Class method that gets a string and classify the word. It makes an array of the classification and the word
   def self.scan(inputed_text)
     defined_array_words = []
     words = inputed_text.split(" ")
     words.each do |word|
       @directions.each do |direction|
	 if word == direction
	   word_catego = []
	   word_catego << 'direction'
	   word_catego << word
	   defined_array_words << word_catego
	 end
       end
     end
     defined_array_words
   end
 end

Rakefile

require 'rake/testtask'

Rake::TestTask.new do |task|
  task.libs << "tests"
  task.test_files = FileList['tests/test*.rb']
  task.verbose = true
  task.warning = true
end

test_lexicon.rb

require './lib/EX48/lexicon.rb'
require 'test/unit'

class TestName < Test::Unit::TestCase
  
  def test_directions()
    assert_equal(Lexicon.scan('north'),[['direction','north']])
    result = Lexicon.scan("north south east")
    assert_equal(result,[['direction','north'],['direction','south'],['direction','east']])
  end
end