Roman <=> Integer (Ruby)

gistfile1.rb

module RomanEmpire

  emperor = "Claudio Cicali"

  @numbers = {
    :letters  => [ "M",    "D",   "C",   "L",  "X",  "V", "I" ],
    :integers => [ "1000", "500", "100", "50", "10", "5", "1" ]
  }

  def RomanEmpire.romanFor(integer)
    @numbers[:letters][@numbers[:integers].index(integer.to_s)]
  end

  def RomanEmpire.integerFor(roman)
    @numbers[:integers][@numbers[:letters].index(roman)].to_i
  end

  def RomanEmpire.numbers
    @numbers
  end

  class Number

    def initialize(repr)
      
      @value = { 
        :integer => repr, 
        :roman => repr
      }

      # The self test will be removed once we have proper tests
      
      if (repr =~ /\A[+-]?\d+\Z/).nil?
        @output_type = :integer
        @value[:integer] = parseRoman(repr, 0)
        if (parseInteger(@value[:integer]) != @value[:roman])
          raise "Duo numeri non equatur! " + (@value[:roman]) + " != " + @value[:integer]
        end
      else
        @output_type = :roman
        @value[:roman] = parseInteger(repr);
        if (parseRoman(@value[:roman], 0).to_i != @value[:integer].to_i)
          raise "Duo numeri non equatur! " + @value[:integer] + " != " + @value[:roman]
        end

      end
    end

    def converted
      @value[@output_type]
    end

    private

    def parseRoman(roman, acc)

      if roman[0].nil?
        return acc
      end

      d0 = RomanEmpire::integerFor(roman[0].chr)
      d1 = roman[1].nil? ? 0 : RomanEmpire::integerFor(roman[1].chr)

      if d1 <= d0
        parseRoman( roman[1..-1], acc + d0 )
      elsif d1 > d0
        parseRoman( roman[2..-1], acc + ( d1 - d0 ) )
      end

    end

    def parseInteger(integer)

      integer = integer.to_s

      mult = 0
      number = ""
      tmp = 0

      while integer.length > 0

        partial = ""

        digit = integer[0].to_i - 48

        if digit > 0

          mult = 10 ** (integer.length - 1)

          tmp = digit * mult

          # This is for "special, edge cases". 
          # Example for "4": mult is 1 and and K esists so that K - 1 = 4. In that case K is 5 so that I use R(1) + R(5) which is IV
          # Example for "400": mult is 100 and and K esists so that K - 100 = 400. In that case K is 500 so I use R(100) + R(500) which is CD
          RomanEmpire.numbers[:integers].each { | value | 
            if (value.to_i - tmp ) == mult
              partial = (RomanEmpire::romanFor(mult) + RomanEmpire::romanFor(value));
            end
          }

          if (partial == "")
            RomanEmpire.numbers[:integers].each { | value | 
              value = value.to_i
              while (tmp - value) >= 0
                tmp -= value
                partial += RomanEmpire::romanFor(value);
              end
            }
          end

          number += partial
        end

        integer = integer[1..-1]

      end

      number

    end

  end

end

ARGF.each_line do |entry|  
  puts RomanEmpire::Number.new(entry.chop).converted 
end

Oh yeah, I did not any check sorry. Thanks.