Sam's solution

solution.rb

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+TEXT = File.read('speech.txt')
+
+
+class WordCounter
+  @@WORDS_REGEX = /\w+[a-z']*/
+
+  def self.solve text
+    words = find_words TEXT
+    word_freqs = count_words words
+    sorted_words = sort_words word_freqs
+    print_sorted_word_counts sorted_words
+  end
+
+  def self.find_words text
+    text.downcase.scan @@WORDS_REGEX
+  end
+
+  def self.count_words words_array
+    Hash.new(0).tap do |word_count|
+      words_array.each { |word| word_count[word] += 1 }
+    end
+  end
+
+  def self.sort_words words_frequency_hash
+    words_frequency_hash.sort_by { |word, count| -count }
+  end
+
+  def self.wordcount_print_format word
+    "#{word[1]} - #{word[0].capitalize}"
+  end
+
+  def self.print_sorted_word_counts sorted_words
+    sorted_words.each { |word| puts wordcount_print_format(word) }
+  end
+end
+
+
+WordCounter.solve(TEXT)
+