RichterCatalogue

richter_catalogue allows users to the search through an abridged version of Gerhard Richter's Painting Catalogue either by the painting's subject, the year in which it was conceived, or directly by its name.

detailed explanation of functionality

Decide wether you want to search by subject, year or name.

type 'subject' to search catalogue by subject type 'year' to search catalogue by year type 'name' to search catalogue by year

Subject You'll be presented with a numbered list of available subjects. You may select one either by number or by name * names written in lowercase yield correct results If your selection is invalid you'll be asked to try again Once a correct subject has been selected you'll be presented with a number list of paintings that belong to the selected subject. If you want information on all the paintings type 'all' If you want information on a specific painting you may select which painting either by number or by name If a painting is selected by name and there are multiple paintings with the same name information will be return on all said paintings

Year You'll be presented with a list of available years of which you may select one. If your selection is invalid you'll be asked to try again. Once a correct year has been selected you'll be presented with a number list of paintings that belong to the selected year. If you wish to see information on all the paintings type 'all'. If you want information on a specific painting you may select which painting either by number or by name. If a painting is selected by name and there are multiple paintings with the same name information will be return on all said paintings

Name You'll be asked to input a painting's name. If your input is invalid you'll be asked to try again. Once a correct painting's name has be inputed you'll be returned information on that painting If the provided painting name matches multiple paintings you'll be returned information on all said paintings.

at any point salve for the original menu you can type 'back' to go back to the previous query

at any point you can type 'exit' to exit the gem

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'richter_catalogue'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install richter_catalogue

following installation run:

$ richter-catalogue

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/richter_catalogue. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.