Create letters with ROR display on cmd

[Miles Morales]

How can you alter the following code to replicate the letters 'G' and 'X' into your command prompt using ROR? I was able to create the letter H to display on my cmd. 

Draw top Region 1

    for y in 1..8
      for x in 1..6
        print "*"
      end
   
      for x in 1..8
        print " "
      end
   
      for x in 1..6
        print "p"
      end
   
      print "\n"
    end
   

Draw center bar Region 2 goes all the way across the bar

Use a different character or different regions.

    

 

  for y in 1..3
      for x in 1..20
        print "*"
      end
      print "\n"
    end

    

Draw bottom bar Region 3 Look like the top bar

   

for y in 1..8
      for x in 1..6
        print "*"
      end
   
      for x in 1..8
        print " "
      end
   
      for x in 1..6
        print "*"
      end
   
      print "\n"
    end

[botp]

if you go that route, you may have problems editing the letters. imc, i actually created a drawing / image of all the letters in a text file, then compress / decompress the file when needed.  i arranged the letters in a column, one big letter-width-wise column ie, because it was easier for me to edit the letters and i can visibly see if they align or go out of bounds/edges.

there are vector-based-like version of this; see figlet and artii gems eg.

kind regards --botp

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[Paul Makepeace]

There is a program, banner(1), on a lot of unix systems that does this. So either you might not want to do it in Ruby (because this does it already), e.g.,

banner -w 40 Hello, World

Or you can look at its source and see how it does it: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-9/banner/chset.c contains encoding of the letters and then http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-9/banner/banner.c uses it. It goes further by correctly printing drop characters like j, p, q, etc.

HTH,

Paul