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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Control Structures Else challenge

Posted by Jon Dolan
Jon Dolan
565 Points

How to set a variable to be true for one situation and false for another

I don't think the video showed how to do this

ruby.rb 
car_speed = 55
speed_limit = 60

too_fast = (car_speed > speed_limit)
if (car_speed < speed_limit)
  too_fast = "false"

1 Answer

Jarold Wong
Jarold Wong
7,766 Points
Jarold Wong
Jarold Wong
7,766 Points

You can use an else statement to set too_fast to true.

if conditional
      do something
else
      do something else
end