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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Methods Method Returns: Part 2

Jon Abrahamson
Jon Abrahamson
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Posted by Jon Abrahamson
Jon Abrahamson
1,532 Points

I cant escape this "Make sure you're returning a String from the mod method"

I cant escape this "Make sure you're returning a String from the mod method". Where do I include the "puts" statement in relation to the "return" of a%b?

method.rb 
def mod(a, b)
  return puts"The remainder of #{a} devided by #{b} is c=a%b"
end

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You don't need to include it anywhere. puts is used to print strings, which is not something the challenge asks you to do. It asks you to return the string directly.

Also the c in the string is meant to be the result of a%b, you are currently just inserting 'c=a%b' as literal text into the string. You should use string interpolation like you do with a and b. Like this:

def mod(a, b)
  c = a%b
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{c}"
end

Or even simpler like this:

def mod(a, b)
  return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a%b}"
end

I noticed also that you misspelled divided as devided within the string, which I corrected in the above code.