method return part 2 i am stuck please help!

Hi there! There's a couple of things going on here. First, you never compute the remainder that it's asking for. Now you can do this a couple of ways. You can either set up a variable named c first, or you can send back the calculation directly. But the big thing here lies in the instructions of the challenge. It says to return the string, not print it.

Calculating inside the string:

def mod(a, b)
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a%b}."
end

Calculating using another variable:

def mod(a, b)
  c = a % b
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}."
end

The strings will be identical whichever way you prefer to go. Hope this helps!

Patrick, as you know, methods can do different things. They can display text to the console (puts), they can return a value, which the code that calls the method can use, or display, etc.

In this particular case the reasoning for using return rather than puts is that the challenge asked for it: "it would be nicer if the method returned the remainder in a nice full sentence."

Without the return the editor won't accept the code.

Using "puts" didn't work. What's the reasoning behind "return" vs. 'puts "The remainder of #{a}..."?