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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Control Structures If challenge!

Posted by Allan Tito
Allan Tito
1,165 Points

Task resolution

I run this on my workspace and it works:

car_speed = 65 speed_limit = 60

too_fast = "true"

if car_speed > speed_limit puts too_fast end

But does not as an answer to the task. What is being overlooked? Thanks

1 Answer

Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points
Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points

Hi Allan,

Your code makes the variable too_fast equal to a string of "true" regardless of the value of car speed. You want to declare too_fast being equal to true only if car_speed is greater than the speed_limit. e.g.

car_speed = 65
speed_limit = 60
if car_speed > speed_limit
    too_fast = true
end
Allan Tito
Allan Tito
1,165 Points

Hi Seth -

Got it. I was not clear I could set too_fast to either true or false and what would that output to.

Thank you!