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    copied!<p>I am setting up a World Cup Challenge between some friends, and decided to practice my Ruby and write a small script to automate the process. </p> <p><strong>The Problem:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>32 World Cup qualifiers split into 4 tiers by their Fifa ranking</li> <li>8 entries</li> <li>Each entry is assigned 1 random team per tier</li> <li>Winner takes all :-)</li> </ul> <p>I wrote something that suffices yet is admittedly brute force. But, in my attempt to improve my Ruby, I acknowlege that this code isn't the most elegant solution around - So I turn to you, the experts, to show me the way. </p> <p>It may be more clear to check out this gist - <a href="https://gist.github.com/91e1f1c392bed8074531" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gist.github.com/91e1f1c392bed8074531</a></p> <p><strong>My Current (poor) solution</strong>:</p> <pre><code>require 'yaml' @teams = YAML::load(File.open('teams.yaml')) @players = %w[Player1 Player2 Player3 Player4 Player5 Player6 Player7 Player8] results = Hash.new players = @players.sort_by{rand} players.each_with_index do |p, i| results[p] = Array[@teams['teir_one'][i]] end second = @players.sort_by{rand} second.each_with_index do |p, i| results[p] &lt;&lt; @teams['teir_two'][i] end third = @players.sort_by{rand} third.each_with_index do |p, i| results[p] &lt;&lt; @teams['teir_three'][i] end fourth = @players.sort_by{rand} fourth.each_with_index do |p, i| results[p] &lt;&lt; @teams['teir_four'][i] end p results </code></pre> <p>I am sure there is a better way to iterate through the tiers, and duplicating the @players object ( <code>dup()</code> or <code>clone()</code> maybe?)</p> <p>So from one Cup Fan to another, help me out.</p>
 

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