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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Strings String Creation

Posted by hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Ruby String Creation

Hi everyone,

I am pretty frustrated with this code challenge, I know the answers to the other 3 questions but on of the questions is asking me to fill in the blank to create a string named website with the value of treehouse. It gives me this:

website = ___________

I thought that the way to define a string was with quotes like this: ”Treehouse” but apparently not…

1 Answer

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

I just tried using ”Treehouse” (with quotes) and it passed that challenge just fine. Perhaps it's an issue they're having on the challenge. Try logging out or perhaps a different browser to see if you still have the same problem. Don't copy and paste from this answer because it looks like the quotes are being converted to "smart quotes".

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Ok, I’ll try that