Refactoring the Deeply-Nested Hash Antipattern - Pivotal Labs

Just finished up my first blog post in a very long time for Pivotal Labs. Refactoring the Deeply-Nested Hash Antipat...

QUIZ = { question_1: { prompt: "What is your name?" }, question_2: { prompt: "What is your favorite color?", display_proc: ->(color) { "The color is #{color}." } }, question_3: { prompt: "What is your favorite integer between 1 and 5?", choices: %w[1 2 3 4 5] } } answers = {} def simple_answer(question_hash) print question_hash[:prompt], " " gets.chomp end def multiple_choice_answer(question_hash) choices = question_hash[:choices] answer = nil until choices.include?(answer) print question_hash[:prompt], " " answer = gets.chomp puts "You must pick an answer from #{choices}" unless choices.include?(answer) end answer end QUIZ.each do |name, question_hash| answer = if question_hash[:choices] multiple_choice_answer(question_hash) else simple_answer(question_hash) end answers[name] = answer end display_answers = Hash[ answers.map do |name, answer| if display_proc = QUIZ[name][:...

Full article: http://pivotallabs.com/refactoring-the-deeply-nested-hash...