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Mike Morales
Mike Morales
19,833 Points
Posted by Mike Morales
Mike Morales
19,833 Points

Build a Simple Ruby on Rails - Problem Solved!

I figured it out, finally! It all had to do with adding the .strip.

I've been working on Build a Simple Ruby on Rails for a Month now. There are nine achievements, and I am finally there. However, I am working on the Code Challenge: Adding Gravatars. I am stuck on Challenge Task 3 of 5, here is the question given:

Update the gravatar_url method so it returns the downcased version of the email address with leading and trailing whitespace stripped. You can use the strip method on strings to do this.

I am sure it is something simple to pass. But nonetheless, I am struggling with this, and I need some hints so that way, I can move forward. Thanks, in advance!

1 Answer

Aaron Kaye
Aaron Kaye
1,740 Points
Aaron Kaye
Aaron Kaye
1,740 Points

This is something like what you should have from the other two code challenges. Now in this step you need to return the email with the leading and trailing white space removed. As the questions states you can use the 'strip' method to do that so the same way you do the downcase method you can chain the strip method to that and return an email that is downcase and stripped! Hoped that hint helped

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  def gravatar_url
    return email.downcase
  end
end
Mike Morales
Mike Morales
19,833 Points
Mike Morales
Mike Morales
19,833 Points

Thanks for your input. But I finally figured it out a few minutes ago. I just made the question seem harder than it actually was, I can't believe it was that simple.