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Ruby Ruby Objects and Classes Ruby Objects and Classes Instantiation

Posted by Ward Madoyan
Ward Madoyan
2,380 Points

#whats wrong?

bummer: the string variable was not found??

ruby.rb 
class String
  string = String.new
end

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! The biggest problem here is that you went above and beyond what the instructions said to do. They didn't ask you to make a new class, but rather make a new instance of a class and assign it to the variable string.

If you erase your first and third line, your code passes! :sparkles: