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Saadia Fattah
1,939 PointsIn this challenge it says to pass the string "Ruby" as an argument I don't understand what it means?
End your program with a call to the say method, and pass the string "Ruby" as an argument. That's the part of the challenge I'm having trouble with.
def say(cats)
puts cats
end
def ruby(
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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,969 PointsTo call your function you type the name followed by parentheses. Within the parentheses is where you place your argument.
say("Ruby")
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Saadia Fattah
1,939 PointsThank you!