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10 Secs Bodyguard Trick

Really nice trick for those of us that can’t tie a tie:

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AmigoSecreto.rb

Using part of our research time :-) , Victor and I developed a very small script to play the “Amigo Secreto” (Secret Friend) game here at the PLEIAD Lab. Following is the Ruby code (we used this snippet for the email-sending function).

require 'net/smtp'
 
def send_email(from, from_alias, to, to_alias, subject, message)
  msg = <<end_OF_MESSAGE
From: #{from_alias} <#{from}>
To: #{to_alias} <#{to}>
Subject: #{subject}
#{message}
END_OF_MESSAGE
 
  Net::SMTP.start('dcc.uchile.cl') do |smtp|
    smtp.send_message(msg, from, to)
  end
end
 
def randomize(hash)
  k = hash.keys
  hash.keys.each_index{ |idx|
    pos = idx + (rand() * (k.length - idx - 1)).ceil;
    tmp = k[idx]
    k[idx] = k[pos]
    k[pos] = tmp
  }
 
  rhash = {}
  hash.keys.each_index{ |idx|
    rhash[k[idx]] = hash[hash.keys[idx]];
  }
 
  rhash
end
 
users = {
  "vramiro@dcc.NOSPAM.uchile.cl" => "Victor",
  "rtoledo@dcc.NOSPAM.uchile.cl" => "Rodolfo",
  "etanter@dcc.NOSPAM.uchile.cl" => "Eric",
  "gpothier@dcc.NOSPAM.uchile.cl" => "Guillaume",
  "pleger@dcc.NOSPAM.uchile.cl" => "Paul",
  "cvairett@dcc.NOSPAM.uchile.cl" => "Carla",
  "jfabry@dcc.NOSPAM.uchile.cl" => "Johan"}
 
randomize(users).each_pair{ |mail,name|
  msg = <<end_OF_MESSAGE
Tu super amig@ secret@ es: #{name}
END_OF_MESSAGE
  send_email("pleiad@dcc.uchile.cl","PLEIAD Lab",
            mail,"",
            "[PLEIAD] Amigo Secreto", msg)
}
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