HW impossibility?: “Create a rock paper scissors program in ruby WITHOUT using conditionals”

Question

I\'m in an introductory software development class, and my homework is to create a rock paper scissors program that takes two arguments (rock, paper), etc, and returns the arg t

Answer 1

Here's one only using hashes:

RULES = {
  :rock     => {:rock => :draw, :paper => :paper, :scissors => :rock},
  :paper    => {:rock => :paper, :paper => :draw, :scissors => :scissors},
  :scissors => {:rock => :rock, :paper => :scissors, :scissors => :draw}
}

def play(p1, p2)
  RULES[p1][p2]
end

puts play(:rock, :paper)        # :paper
puts play(:scissors, :rock)     # :rock
puts play(:scissors, :scissors) # :draw