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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Control Structures Else challenge

Posted by Aaron Figueroa
Aaron Figueroa
2,860 Points

How do I format this if/ elsif statement to be correct?

It gives me 2 variables. One for car speed and another for speed limit. the answer is supposed to read true if the car speed is greater than the speed limit but unless I change the car speed... that statement will never read true. I have changed the speeds, order, and I even tried to take not def "too_fast:" I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

ruby.rb 
def "too_fast:"

car_speed = 55
speed_limit = 60


  if car_speed > speed_limit
    puts true
  elsif car_speed < speed_limit
    puts false
  end

2 Answers

William Li
PLUS
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi, Aaron, you shouldn't use the puts statement here, instead, you should assign the true/false to the variable too_fast

# Write your code here
  if car_speed > speed_limit
    too_fast = true
  elsif car_speed < speed_limit
    too_fast = false
  end

Also, you have to delete this first line in your code, it serves no purpose and will definitely cause syntax error

def "too_fast:"
Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson
7,585 Points
Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson
7,585 Points

Hi Aaron you don't need to use the puts since you are not outputting anything to the console. You simply need to assign the true or false value to the too_fast variable. Also, you don't need the elsif condition because you only have two possible conditions:

  1. You are going over the speed limit
  2. You are not going over the speed limit

Using a if/else statement like this will work just fine.

car_speed = 55
speed_limit = 60

if car_speed > speed_limit
  too_fast = true
else
  too_fast = false
end

Hope this helps!