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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Methods Method Arguments: Part 1

Ashish Chalukya
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How To Create a method?

Create a method called hello that takes one argument

method.rb

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Kourosh Raeen
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Kourosh Raeen
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You use the def keyword to start the definition of a method, followed by space and then the name of the method. Right after the name of the method you write the arguments passed in inside parenthesis. Finally, you indicate the end of the method using the end keyword:

def hello(arg)

end