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5 Answers
Ethan Lowry
Courses Plus Student 7,323 Points'chomp' is a method belonging to the String class which removes content from the end of a given string. In its simplest usage, calling .chomp on a string will remove any trailing whitespace, new lines etc. on the end of that string.
You can see examples and read more about chomp and other String methods over in the docs.
Andy Saini
5,287 Pointswhy are methods like .chomp used directly in treehouse videos without a proper introduction?
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 PointsThat is the one fault with the ruby courses, you don't know what some of the code is that he is using. The Ruby Foundations course was even worse; thankfully it was deprecated. If you want a more foundational understanding of Ruby, read Learn to Program by Chris Pine.
Andy Saini
5,287 PointsI've seen similar behaviour with many other courses too..
Jasmine Frantz
8,299 PointsGlad to hear I am not alone on this.
Jitli Gan
2,668 Pointsexactly^^