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Ruby

Posted by Nick Soares
Nick Soares
Courses Plus Student 994 Points

I am stuck

I am confused with the teachings of this video http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-simple-ruby-on-rails-application/getting-started-with-rails/assigning-another-variable

The directions say to write out a double quote THEN type the status update then add another quote.

So i am doing this

status = ""My Status"

I have also tried this

status = "my status"

But nothing is working, please help

4 Answers

Brad L'estrange
Brad L'estrange
2,085 Points
Brad L'estrange
Brad L'estrange
2,085 Points

it needs to be

status = "I'm on the internet."

You are right it is just needs to say "I'm on the internet." to work.

Nick Soares
Nick Soares
Courses Plus Student 994 Points

Wups, I replied by answering, my bad. Please read below

Nick Soares
Nick Soares
Courses Plus Student 994 Points

Ok it finally worked. But how was I supposed to know that it needed to be "I'm on the internet."?? Why not "This is my update" or something?

Brad L'estrange
Brad L'estrange
2,085 Points

It said in the top. In the question.

Nick Soares
PLUS
Nick Soares
Courses Plus Student 994 Points
Nick Soares
Nick Soares
Courses Plus Student 994 Points

Thanks Brad, but its still not working. It is saying "Bummer" try again

In the editor this is what is given to me

1 name = "my name" 2

So on line 2 I write out

status = "I'm on the internet."

and it still does not work.

Brad L'estrange
Brad L'estrange
2,085 Points
Brad L'estrange
Brad L'estrange
2,085 Points

There is indication in there that you need to put "I'm on the internet."

This is the title "Add a new variable called "status" and give it the value "I'm on the internet.""

The key word is value. It tells you to give it the vaule of "I'm on the internet.". This is very clear. :)

Eleanor Zimmermann
Eleanor Zimmermann
237 Points
Eleanor Zimmermann
Eleanor Zimmermann
237 Points

Yeaaaaa, so they should definitely indicate what value is wanted in the status update, I don't see any indication of how we should have known that "I'm on the internet" was the intended value. ugh.