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Ruby Ruby Basics Ruby Syntax Method Arguments

Posted by Brent Rainwater
Brent Rainwater
3,802 Points

nothing is working on this one

I've tried this every way I can think of and still nothing works what am I doing wrong?

say.rb 
def say(Ruby)
  puts "Ruby"
end

say ("Ruby")
woodworth
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
woodworth
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,831 Points

You are not correctly passing the param but are very close to the correct answer. Here is how I did it.

def say(name)
  puts name
end

say("Ruby")

1 Answer

Amrit Pandey
Amrit Pandey
17,595 Points
Amrit Pandey
Amrit Pandey
17,595 Points

In reality if you run this program in irl(ruby shell) it will work!

But, the process is wrong, you are hard coding "Ruby" string in the method.

What you wanna do is to create a method that prints whatever you pass in it. And the challenge says that you have to pass "Ruby"

so lets create a method

def say(something_to_say)
   puts something_to_say
end

now whatever you pass in place of something_to_say, method will print it.

let's pass "Ruby" in it

say("Ruby")

Now it will print Ruby! :)