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Megan Panich
Courses Plus Student 4,216 PointsWhy am I getting the message: Bummer! Make sure you return a nicely formatted string? (Challenge Task 1 of 1)
Challenge Task: In the previous challenge, we wrote a method that returned the remainder of two arguments when divided. That's cool, but it would be nicer if the method returned the remainder in a nice full sentence. Use string interpolation to return the remainder inside the sentence “The remainder of a divided by b is c.” where a is your “a” variable, b is your “b” variable, and c is the value of a % b.
The error I got when submitting my answer: "Bummer! Make sure you return a nicely formatted string"
Given code:
def mod(a, b) # insert code here end
What I coded:
def mod(a, b) puts "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a%b}." end
mod(9, 5)
3 Answers
Jake Adams
1,608 PointsThis seems crazy to me, but if you change the puts to return, it passes fine. You also need to include a period at the end of the sentence.
def mod(a, b) return "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a%b}." end
Megan Panich
Courses Plus Student 4,216 PointsThanks Jake! That worked! (Changed 'puts' to 'return', plus adding 'puts' before 'mod(9, 5)' since I'm using return in the method. Yeah, I think it's a problem with this challenge because I just did a search on "nicely" and found two others with the same bummer message and a person on staff at Treehouse responded with the same code I originally used as working to pass the challenge...
Bradley Webb
2,577 PointsJust ran into this myself; thanks for the tip Jake. I think the test code for this challenge needs to be rewritten.
Megan Panich
Courses Plus Student 4,216 PointsMegan Panich
Courses Plus Student 4,216 PointsI wanted to add that I tested this in my workspace and it gave me the correct output:
def remain(a, b) puts "The remainder of #{a} divided by #{b} is #{a%b}" end
remain(7, 2) remain(5, 3) remain(6, 5)
treehouse:~/workspace$ ruby methods.rb
The remainder of 7 divided by 2 is 1
The remainder of 5 divided by 3 is 2
The remainder of 6 divided by 5 is 1