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9,152 PointsBelow the Address class definition, initialize a variable called address which will be a new instance of the Address
I am new to Ruby programming and programming in general but don't understand what is wrong with my code as is not accepted as an answer. I initialized new variable and gave it all arguments needed.
class Address
attr_accessor :kind, :street_1, :street_2, :city, :state, :postal_code
def initialize(kind, street_1, street_2, city, state, postal_code)
@kind = kind or ''
@street_1 = street_1 or ''
@street_2 = street_2 or ''
@city = city or ''
@state = state or ''
@postal_code = postal_code or ''
end
def to_s(format = 'short')
address = ''
case format
when 'long'
address += street_1 + "\n"
address += street_2 + "\n" if !street_2.nil?
address += "#{city}, #{state} #{postal_code}"
when 'short'
address += "#{kind}: "
address += street_1
if street_2
address += " " + street_2
end
address += ", #{city}, #{state}, #{postal_code}"
end
address
end
end
address= Address.new
address.kind = 'home'
address.street_1 = 'random street'
address.street_2 = 'bum'
address.city = 'random city'
address.state = 'bum'
address.postal_code = '00-000'
2 Answers
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsThe error you receive is: Bummer: ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 6). To pass in an argument include it in parentheses following new.
address = Address.new('home', 'random street', etc.)
imanewbie
9,152 PointsThank you. I got confused as I thought I can give arguments by using
variable_name.argument_type = "argument"
but it is wrong because attr_accessor turns instance variable into instance method