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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Control Structures If challenge!

Soumya Veer
Soumya Veer
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Posted by Soumya Veer
Soumya Veer
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too_fast variable is not set. Not sure if I am understanding the task correctly.

I am getting this message 'too_fast variable is not set'. but every time I execute the code, too_fast is returning true if car_speed is > speed_limit. I am not sure if I understand the task properly.

ruby.rb 
car_speed = 65
speed_limit = 60
too_fast = "false"
if car_speed > speed_limit
  too_fast = "true"
  puts "Car speed is faster than the speed limit"
end
puts too_fast

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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You understand the problem just fine. The problem is that you've set too_fast to the strings "true" and "false" instead of the values true and false. Just remove the quotes. See my code for clarification:

car_speed = 65
speed_limit = 60
too_fast = false
if car_speed > speed_limit
  too_fast = true
  puts "Car speed is faster than the speed limit"
end
puts too_fast