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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Logical Operators The Or (||) Operator

Posted by Leonardo Escalante
Leonardo Escalante
3,190 Points

Code challenge.

Hello, I don understand why my code isn't working. Please help me:

def valid_command?(command) if (command == y) || (command == yes) return "True" elsif (command == Y ) || (command == YES) return "True" end end

Thanks for your comments!

ruby.rb 
def valid_command?(command)
  if (command == y) || (command == yes)
    return "True"
  elsif (command == Y ) || (command == YES)
    return "True"
end
end

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Leonardo,

There is just a couple of things:

First, you are only checking one value for true, so you don't need an elsif or even an else statement... just the if statement.

Second, you are returning a string of "True" instead of the Boolean value of true.

Once fixed:

def valid_command?(command)
  if command == "y" || "yes" || "Y" || "YES"
    return true
  end
end

Hope that helps. Keep Coding! :)