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Ruby

Posted by Melodie Joseph
Melodie Joseph
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Got stuck with some Ruby code, and I'm stuck...please help?

This is actually from the Codewars website, but I have no idea what to do next:

class Person def initialize(name) @name = name end

def greet(other_name) "Hi #{other_name}, my name is #{name}" end end

I need to make the greet function return the expected value- but I'm stuck. Any advice?

Thanks!!

1 Answer

Maximiliane Quel
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Maximiliane Quel
Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 Points

I'm not entirely sure whether this is what you are asking. When you want to use the name that you initialise in the greet function you should add an @ symbol in front to indicate that it is the instance variable that you want to use.

You create a specific Person from the Person class and use the greet method on them, which will return the statement:

class Person 
    def initialize(name) 
        @name = name 
    end

    def greet(other_name) 
        "Hi #{other_name}, my name is #{@name}" 
    end 
end

Max = Person.new("Max")
Max.greet("Melodie")

In this case you will get: "Hi Melodie, my name is Max".