From 7b70b2fca5413049c325f2a432571ae60a64df2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Rossi <bassguitarbill@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 04:48:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] 2025 ruby day 8

---
 ruby/2025/8/bin/problem       | 10 ++++
 ruby/2025/8/lib/playground.rb | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 ruby/2025/8/bin/problem
 create mode 100644 ruby/2025/8/lib/playground.rb

diff --git a/ruby/2025/8/bin/problem b/ruby/2025/8/bin/problem
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a423098
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ruby/2025/8/bin/problem
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+
+require "playground"
+
+pg = Playground.for STDIN.read.chomp
+pg.connect_circuits!
+puts "Part 1: #{pg.circuits.values.uniq.sort_by(&:length).last(3).map(&:length).reduce(&:*)}"
+
+pg.connect_all_circuits!
+puts "Part 2: #{pg.last_pair.map(&:x).reduce(&:*)}"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ruby/2025/8/lib/playground.rb b/ruby/2025/8/lib/playground.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c87c490
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ruby/2025/8/lib/playground.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+class Playground
+  attr_reader :boxes, :circuits, :last_pair
+  def initialize(boxes)
+    @boxes = boxes
+    boxes.each { |box| box.pg = self }
+    @circuits = boxes.to_h{ |box| [box.index, Circuit.new(box)] }
+  end
+
+  def self.for(input)
+    new input.split("\n").each_with_index.map(&JunctionBox.method(:for))
+  end
+
+  def distances
+    boxes.map { |b1| boxes.map { |b2| b1.distance_squared(b2) } }
+  end
+
+  def distance_pairs
+    distances.each_with_index.map do |dist_row, x|
+      dist_row.each_with_index.map do |dist, y|
+        [[x, y].min, [x,y].max, dist]
+      end
+    end.flatten(1).uniq.sort_by { |dp| dp[2] }
+  end
+
+  def connect_circuits!(connections=1000)
+    distance_pairs.first(connections).each do |a, b, _|
+      connect_circuit!(a, b)
+    end
+  end
+
+  def connect_all_circuits!
+    distance_pairs.each do |a, b, _|
+      connect_circuit!(a, b)
+      break if all_connected?
+    end
+  end
+
+  def all_connected?
+    circuits.values.uniq.length == 1
+  end
+
+  def connect_circuit!(a, b)
+    return if circuits[a].boxes.include?(boxes[b])
+
+    @last_pair = boxes[a], boxes[b]
+
+    circuits[a].boxes.push(*Array.new(circuits[b].boxes))
+    circuits[b].boxes.each { |box| circuits[box.index] = circuits[a] }
+  end
+
+  class JunctionBox
+    attr_reader :index, :x, :y, :z
+    attr_accessor :pg
+    def initialize(index, x, y, z)
+      @index = index
+      @x = x
+      @y = y
+      @z = z
+    end
+
+    def self.for(line, index)
+      new index, *line.split(",").map(&:to_i)
+    end
+
+    def distance_squared(other)
+      return 9999999999999 if self == other
+
+      (x - other.x)**2 +
+        (y - other.y)**2 +
+        (z - other.z)**2
+    end
+
+    def distances
+      @distances ||= pg.boxes.map { |box| distance_squared(box) }
+    end
+
+    def to_s
+      "#{index} (#{x}, #{y}, #{z})"
+    end
+  end
+
+  class Circuit
+    attr_reader :boxes
+    def initialize(box)
+      @boxes = [box]
+    end
+
+    def to_s
+      boxes.map(&:index)
+    end
+
+    def length
+      boxes.length
+    end
+  end
+end