Define a method named say. say should take one parameter (name the parameter whatever you want). In the say method body,

Question

Please explain how I am incorrect.

say.rb

def say(ruby)
  puts ("ruby")
end
say("hi")

Answer 1 · 2018-03-08T01:28:32Z

March 8, 2018 1:28am

Hi Joseph,

There are a couple of things.

First, the instructions say to pass the argument from the function to the puts() method, but you are passing a string literal "ruby" instead of the parameter ruby. Once you surround something in quotation marks, it becomes a string.

Second, the instruction say to call the function with "Ruby" as an argument, but you are calling the function with "hi" as an argument.

Once you fix those up, the task will pass.

Also, it is not really a good idea to use the name of the language as a parameter name. It could get confusing and many times keywords will break the code. Try using something simple like a or name or param1 etc. Just a small tip.

Remember that challenges are very specific and the instructions need to be followed exactly, or the task will result in the Bummer!. Punctuation, capitalization, names, etc all are very important details.

Other than that, nice work! :)

Answer 2 · 2020-03-09T07:08:04Z

March 9, 2020 7:08am

I can't get this to work either. This is what I wrote:

def say(Chuck_Norris)
  puts "Ruby"
end

Chuck_Norris

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