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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) How Ruby Works Setting Variables

James Chi
James Chi
941 Points
Posted by James Chi
James Chi
941 Points

I'm VERY confused with this task

I think i might be doing it wrong but ....

variable.rb 
name = "Auggie"
name = "favorite-food"
puts name
Luis Diaz
Luis Diaz
5,617 Points
Luis Diaz
Luis Diaz
5,617 Points

It's asking you to create another variable for your favorite food. Why did you assign "favorite-food" to name?

favorite_food = "type your favorite food here"

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey James,

I think you may have misread the 2nd task. You have the first task correct in that you created a variable called name with a value of "Auggie"

The second part of the challenge wants you to create another variable called favorite_food and put your favorite food in as the value. For example favorite_food = "Strawberry Pie"

And, the challenge did not ask for a puts statement, so I'm not sure why you added that, but it needs to be deleted for the task to pass.

Hope that helps. :dizzy: