blog_post_scheduler.rb

require 'pry'
require 'awesome_print'

# create a method called create_groups that, given an array of student names,
# a group size, and a number of groups, will return an array of groups of
# of students with no student in adjacent groups

def create_groups(students, group_size=4, num_groups=20)
  students.shuffle!
  student_groups = []
  num_groups.times do
    group = []
    group_size.times do
      group << students.push(students.shift).last
    end
    student_groups << group
  end
  student_groups
end

students = [
  "Alex Chiu",
  "Amanda Himmelstoss",
  "Anders Ramsay",
  "Bana Malik",
  "Brendan Manley",
  "Charlotte Chang",
  "Christopher Lee",
  "Daniel Chang",
  "David Bella",
  "Edina Vath",
  "Emily Xie",
  "Greg Eng",
  "Ian Miller",
  "Iris Lee",
  "Ivan Brennan",
  "James Tong",
  "Jeanne Roniger",
  "Joe O'Conor",
  "John Richardson",
  "Joshua Scaglione",
  "Kyle Shike",
  "Logan Hasson",
  "Manuel Neuhauser",
  "Margaret Lee",
  "Matt Campbell",
  "Michael Polycarpou",
  "Mike Spangler",
  "Raymond Gan",
  "Rosanne Hoyem",
  "Sam Yang",
  "Samuel Owens",
  "Saron Yitbarek",
  "Scott Luptowski",
  "Vivian Zhang",
  "Sonja Hall",
  "Stephanie Oh",
  "Theo Vora",
  "Thomas Surgent",
  "Tiffany Peon",
  "Trevor McKendrick",
  "Vinney Cavallo"
  ]

ap create_groups(students, 4, 20)