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Ruby Ruby Basics Strings String Concatenation

Patrick Altman
Patrick Altman
6,173 Points
Posted by Patrick Altman
Patrick Altman
6,173 Points

Why am I not getting Ruby rocks when concatenating this string.

Working on Challenge Task 1 of 1

program.rb 
def Ruby (rocks)
  puts "Ruby" + "rocks"
end

puts "Ruby" + rocks"

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

You don't need a function. The challenge just asks you to join "Ruby" and "rocks!" with a space in between and print the result. Your last line is close but you are missing the space, a quote, and an exclamation point.

puts "Ruby" + " rocks!"