Ruby Debugging

Sample program

• #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  
  class WordDictionary
    def initialize(path = '/usr/share/dict/words')
      return unless FileTest.file?(path)
      @dict = {}
      File.open(path, 'r') do |file|
        file.each do |line|
          if line =~ /^\s*(\w+)\s*$/
            @dict[$1] = true
          end
        end
      end
      @sortedDictKeys = @dict.keys.sort
    end
  
    def findWord(wordFragment="")
      return if wordFragment.empty?
      puts "dictionary size is #{@dict.size}"
      results = []
      @sortedDictKeys.each do |key|
        results << key if key =~ /#{wordFragment}/
      end
      results
    end
  end
  
  dictionary = WordDictionary.new
  p dictionary.findWord("shovel")