Brendan's Word counter solution

word_counter.rb

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+def word_counter(filepath)
+  text = file_to_string(filepath)
+  words_arr = text.split(' ')
+  word_count = {}
+
+  words_arr.each do |word|
+    stripped_word = word.downcase.gsub(/[^a-z]/i, '')
+    if word_count.key? word
+      word_count[stripped_word] += 1
+    else
+      word_count[stripped_word] = 1 if stripped_word != ''
+    end
+  end
+
+  print_hash(word_count)
+end
+
+def file_to_string(filepath)
+  text = ''
+  file_obj = File.new(filepath, 'r')
+
+  while line = file_obj.gets
+    text += line
+  end
+  file_obj.close
+
+  text
+end
+
+def print_hash(hash)
+  hash = hash.sort_by { |_k, v| v }.reverse
+
+  hash.each do |key, value|
+    puts "#{key} - #{value}"
+  end
+end
+
+word_counter('speech.txt')