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Ruby Ruby Objects and Classes Ruby Objects and Classes Creating and Instantiating a Class

Posted by Gad Levy
Gad Levy
2,224 Points

help

name was not defined error .. ?

name.rb 
class Name
 name = Name.new

  def first_name
    "First"
  end

  def last_name
    "Last"
  end

end

1 Answer

Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
132,143 Points
Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
132,143 Points

The challenge is looking for name to be defined after the Name class:

class Name

  def first_name
    "First"
  end

  def last_name
    "Last"
  end

end

name = Name.new