Tiger Level

[habutai]

I probably left in more output than I need to.

It also double-asks on search again after a valid search with a N answer for some reason. I can't figure out why.

I might touch on the Panda Level at some point, but right now, the ActiveRecord::Base API docs are just making me want to flip out.

[jwo]

here you use the "inspect" method on id ---- each object has both a to_s and an inspect method, but for different uses. Inspect should only be used for IRB style introspection. Basically looking at an object. Here you could just do:

"#{id}: #{name} airs at #{day_of_week}:#{hour_of_day}:00 on #{network} "

[jwo]

Nice job!

OK, so the deal with the asking you more than twice is a problem with recursion. In your example:

1. We call find_shows
2. that calls search_again
3. the search_again calls find_shows
4. so there are now two "instances" of the find_shows method.

I reworked a tiny bit. See if this makes sense to you:

def search_again
  puts "Search Again (Y/N)" 
  answer = gets.upcase[0]
  answer == "Y"
end


def find_show

  keep_searching = true
  while keep_searching do
    puts "What day do you want to watch TV? (ex: Sunday)"
    day = gets.chomp

    shows = Show.find(:all, :conditions => {:day_of_week => day})
    if shows.any?
      shows.each do |show|
        puts show
      end
      keep_searching = search_again
    else
      puts "There was nothing found for #{day}"
    end
  end
end

The important part above is setting the keep_searching = search_again --- that way, we only have 1 loop to care about.