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Ruby Ruby Objects and Classes Build a Bank Account Class Printing The BankAccount

Jared Armes
PLUS
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,302 Points
Posted by Jared Armes
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,302 Points

I am so terribly stuck. I have no clue what to do here.

I have watched the video about 4 times now, and I still have no idea what to do. The challenge wants me to format the output in a way that is graphically pleasing; yet I have no idea how to go about doing that. Any help would be very much appreciated

bank_account.rb 
class BankAccount
  attr_reader :name

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
    @transactions = []
    add_transaction("Beginning Balance", 0)
  end

  def balance
    balance = 0
    @transactions.each do |transaction|
      balance += transaction[:amount]
    end
    balance
  end

  def debit(description, amount)
    add_transaction(description, -amount)
  end

  def credit(description, amount)
    add_transaction(description, amount)
  end

  def add_transaction(description, amount)
    @transactions.push(description: description, amount: amount)
  end

end

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hi Jared,

I think you may just be over-thinking the challenge. The video does explain the simple answer, but is mixed in with other formatting and methods. This challenge, however, just wants you to create a to_s method to print the name and balance.

After the end for the add_transaction method, but before the final end of the code is where you will place your to_s method.

  def add_transaction(description, amount)
    @transactions.push(description: description, amount: amount)
  end

  def to_s                       
    "Name: #{name}, Balance: #{balance}"       # These 3 lines are what is needed for this challenge
  end

end

Hope that helps. Keep Coding! :)

Jared Armes
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,302 Points
Jared Armes
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,302 Points

Wow, thanks Jason! I was definitely over-thinking this issue, but then again, I figured that if I wasn't thinking about every little detail at once, I would miss something important. Ironically, it seems that I have!