LuckCheck.rb

=begin

In some countries of former Soviet Union there was a belief about lucky tickets.
A transport ticket of any sort was believed to posess luck if sum of digits on
the left half of its number was equal to the sum of digits on the right half.
Here are examples of such numbers:

003111    #             3 = 1 + 1 + 1
813372    #     8 + 1 + 3 = 3 + 7 + 2
17935     #         1 + 7 = 3 + 5
56328116  # 5 + 6 + 3 + 2 = 8 + 1 + 1 + 6
Such tickets were either eaten after being used or collected for bragging rights

Your task is to write a funtion luck_check(str), which returns true/True if
argument is string decimal representation of a lucky ticket number, or
false/False for all other numbers. It should throw errors for empty strings or
strings which don't represent a decimal number.

=end

# My Solution
def luck_check (str)
  return error if str.match(/\D/) || str == ""
  start = str[0..str.length/2-1]
  finish = str[str.length/2..str.length-1]
  s = 0 ; f = 0
  start.split("").each {|x| s += x.to_i}
  finish.split("").each {|x| f += x.to_i}
  s == f && start.length == finish.length ? true : false
end

# Better Solution
def luck_check (str)
  raise if str[/\D/] || str.empty?
  str = str.chars.map(&:to_i)
  str.first(str.size/2).inject(:+) == str.last(str.size/2).inject(:+)
end