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Ruby Ruby Objects and Classes Ruby Objects and Classes Creating and Instantiating a Class

Sydney Cohen
Sydney Cohen
2,909 Points
Posted by Sydney Cohen
Sydney Cohen
2,909 Points

Not sure what to do here: Instantiate an instance of the Name class and assign it to the variable name. This must come a

thanks for helping

name.rb 
class Name  
  def first_name
    "First"
  end

  def last_name
    "Last"
  end
end

def name(name) 
  @name = name
end

3 Answers

Kevin Mulhern
Kevin Mulhern
20,374 Points
Kevin Mulhern
Kevin Mulhern
20,374 Points

You need to create a new instance of the Name class. like this:

name = Name.new("kevin")
Sydney Cohen
Sydney Cohen
2,909 Points
Sydney Cohen
Sydney Cohen
2,909 Points

Thanks Kelvin.. i got confused with the wording !!

Salman Akram
PLUS
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points
Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Sydney,

You need to put instance of variable "name" AFTER we have Name class, I know it is a bit trick. What we do is to add name instance in the end of the line below. 

class Name
  def first_name
    "First"
  end

  def last_name
    "Last"
  end
end

name = Name.new
puts name

Good Example again at 2:43, you can idea of code samples under teacher's note.

Lorraine Hutter
Lorraine Hutter
4,415 Points
Lorraine Hutter
Lorraine Hutter
4,415 Points

This is what worked for me:

class Name
  def first_name
    "First"
  end

  def last_name
    "Last"
  end
end
# everything after this line is my attempt
name = Name.new