# My Little Ruby Valentine (#192)

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 13, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-little-ruby-valentine-192/160276 "2009-02-13T16:49:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danmcb)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-little-ruby-valentine-192/160276/1 "2009-02-13T16:49:10Z")

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## My Little Ruby Valentine (#192)

Write a program that presents a Valentine’s day card. You may wish to  
present text with a design, image or some colorful ASCII. There are no  
formal requirements, you may choose to make it as simple, complex, or  
creative as you like.

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**Author:** ![danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@danmcb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danmcb)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-little-ruby-valentine-192/160276/2 "2009-02-22T03:16:21Z")

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There was no response to this week’s quiz on the mailing list, but  
like a ray of hope peeking out through dark clouds there was _one_  
solution:

ruby -e ‘puts [[3,3],9,9,7,5,3,1].map{|t|[_t].map{|n|"_“\*n}.join(”  
").center(9)}’

(posted via Twitter: [http://twitter.com/mrcryn/status/1217357005](http://twitter.com/mrcryn/status/1217357005))

I will summarize my feelings with a modified version of Ryan’s solution:

puts  
[[3,0,0,0,3],[4,0,0,5],[5,0,0,4],[4,0,0,3],[3,0,0,2],[1,0,0,2],[0,1]].map{|t|[_t].map{|n|"_“\*n}.join(”  
").center(13)}