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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Numbers Practicing with Numbers

Daniel Ahmadizadeh
Daniel Ahmadizadeh
1,979 Points
Posted by Daniel Ahmadizadeh
Daniel Ahmadizadeh
1,979 Points

How come the name variable is in a string but the year variable can just be in "puts" ?

In the video you can see that Jason puts a variable in the string and then a variable in puts. I was wondering why that can be done.

Thanks!

1 Answer

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Darian,

I see what you mean but you don't have to follow what Jason's instruction, we can be very creative to create our own variable name and string for us to read easier than Jason's methods, whatever you can play around a bit.

Here's better way: 

name = "Jason"
puts "My name is #{name}."

year = 2014
puts "The year is #{year}."

or

name = "Jason"
year = 2014

puts "My name is #{name} and year is #{year}."

Hope that helps. ;)