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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) How Ruby Works The Ruby Programming Language

Posted by William Carty
William Carty
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puts "Hello World!" not working? Am I doing something wrong?

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Shahzaib Awan
Shahzaib Awan
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Shahzaib Awan
Shahzaib Awan
13,767 Points

the ruby method puts stands for put string to see this in action use irb command in console then run puts 'Hello World!' hope it'll work.

Sean Cornwell
Sean Cornwell
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Sean Cornwell
Sean Cornwell
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puts "Hello World!"

This should be all you have/need and it should work when you rub it. If you type irb in the console and press enter. Then type this exactly it should return 'Hello World!'