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Ruby Ruby Loops Ruby Loops The Ruby Loop

Daniel Cunningham
Daniel Cunningham
21,109 Points
Posted by Daniel Cunningham
Daniel Cunningham
21,109 Points

Challenge Question Typo?

Challenge is "Using the loop construct, add the current value of number to the numbers array. Inside of the loop, add 1 to the number variable. If the numbers array has more than 3 items, use the break keyword to exit the loop. "

However, if you put the conditional "numbers.count > 3" into the challenge, the challenge tells you "the length of the array is not 3. When you put numbers.count == 3, the test passes.

I think the question should be modified to "If the numbers array has 3 items, use the break keyword to exit to loop."

loop.rb 
numbers = []

number = 0

loop do
  numbers.push(number)
  number +=1
  if numbers.count > 3
    break
  end
end
# write your loop here

1 Answer

Jamie Perlmutter
Jamie Perlmutter
10,955 Points
Jamie Perlmutter
Jamie Perlmutter
10,955 Points

Yeah I had the same issue with that, it's actually wanting you to go to 4 before breaking out. Try switching it to > 4 and that should do the trick.

Daniel Cunningham
Daniel Cunningham
21,109 Points
Daniel Cunningham
Daniel Cunningham
21,109 Points

Hm, in my case, numbers.count == 3 passed, so maybe we got a different question? Thanks for sharing your experience!