Golf Scripting with Ruby - Helping Santa Schedule Christmas
summary
An algorithm that turns a house list of naughty and nice counts into a delivery schedule is implemented in Ruby and verified with test cases, using a left‑justified two‑dimensional beam-packing / bin-packing approach and Array#permutation to brute‑force orderings. The code is iteratively shortened by removing methods, inlining blocks, renaming variables and deleting whitespace until a one‑line 4 kilobytes → 392 bytes solution remains; the golfed one‑liner passes the supplied tests and runs on the example inputs.
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