happitails.md

#Title: HappiTails

###Objective:

• Practice creating objects

###Explanation

• You are the manager at HappiTails animal shelter. You need to manage your shelter by storing and manipulating information about clients and animals.

###Specification: #####Object Specs:

• Animal:

  • An animal should have a name.
  • An animal should have an age.
  • An animal should have a gender.
  • An animal should have a species.
  • An animal can have multiple toys.

• Client:

  • A client should have a name.
  • A client should have a number of children.
  • A client should have an age.
  • A client should have a number of pets.

• You may also want a global $shelter variable in which you can store the animals and clients.

#####Relationships:

• A client should be able to adopt an animal.
• A client should be able to put an animal up for adoption.

#####Phase 1

• Can create animals and clients with Ruby code: Animal.new( ... ), Client.new( ... )

#####Phase 2

• New animals and clients can be added to the shelter: $shelter['animals'] << Animal.new( ... )

#####Phase 3

• When creating an animal or client, the user is prompted for information like names, gender etc.

#####Phase 4

• At start, the user is prompted with a menu of options:
  • display all animals
  • display all clients
  • create an animal
  • create an client
  • facilitate client adopts an animal
  • facilitate client puts an animal up for adoption
• After selecting from the menu the task the user is prompted through the entire process

#####Bonus: Crappy database

• Save and restore ("persist") your data to/from a file. Probably using CSV format.