This is a Ruby version of the Gilded Rose Kata, found here.

This is a refactorying kata, so you will be starting with a legacy code base. To work the Kata, clone this git repository and checkout the tag 'start-here'. Read the description below for the "rules" involving this kata.

This Ruby version follows the original code very closely, but has the following changes:

• The original had no tests. Since this is a refactoring kata, I feel the tests are important and provide a fairly complete test suite. Just delete the tests if you wish to "go it alone".

• The original used a hard coded set of "items", presumably for testing the code. Since I added a test suite, the hard coded values were not of much use. I also changed the interface to accept a list of items as a parameter rather than a hard coded constant.

You can read the original kata article for more details.

The easiest way is to use bundler to install the dependencies. To do so, you need to install the bundler gem if you haven't already done so

gem install bundler

run bundler

bundle

and should be ready to go. Alternatively, you can install the dependencies one by one using gem install, e.g.

gem install rspec-given

Have a look at the Gemfile for all dependencies.