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Ruby Ruby Basics Ruby Syntax Defining Methods

Posted by kyle long
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kyle long
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,678 Points

not sure what to do

yeah not sure what to do

hello.rb 
puts say_hi.

1 Answer

AJ Tran
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AJ Tran
Treehouse Teacher
AJ Tran
AJ Tran
Treehouse Teacher

Hi kyle long!!

With your code snippet, there is just an extra punctuation mark, the period ..

In English, . is used at the end of the sentence!

However, in Ruby, the . symbol is used to call an object's methods. Therefore, your code will "pause" and wait for "further instructions" to continue. That is not needed here.

Assuming that you have assigned a value to say_hi, see my example below:

say_hi = 'hello world'

puts say_hi

This example will output a message that says hello world!

I hope that this helps you, buddy!