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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) How Ruby Works Setting Variables

Joy LeDuc Krupnow
Joy LeDuc Krupnow
3,833 Points

This challenge seems to currently be broken. Keeps saying there is an error, which should be reported if it continues.

Challenge "Create the variable name and set it equal to your name." Task 1 of 2 is not working.

variable.rb
name = "Joy"

2 Answers

Craig Shukie
Craig Shukie
8,839 Points

The Team Treehouse site seems to currently be experiencing issues with code challenges, the latest update from the site is:

Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.

You can view the status from the following URL:

status.teamtreehouse.com

What you have is correct, and the challenge just worked for me. Try refreshing the page and see if that works?