Getting an error on "Build a simple contact list" challenge 1 of 1

Question

The error is a "no such file or dir" error, which I'm guessing is generic for my code doesn't work.

It seems as if the code should work.

I get the input and assign it to the variable "answer".

I convert it to an integer with to_i.

And then I return it.

I tried submitting it with and without the puts statement outside the block. Nothing seems to work.

I also tried making the "answer" variable different from the "answer" argument as it is in the video example. This didn't work either.

Any help is much appreciated!

ask.rb

def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
  answer = gets.chomp
  answer = answer.to_i if kind == "number"
  return answer
end

answer = parse_answer(" ")
puts answer

Answer 1 · 2015-01-11T21:24:31Z

January 11, 2015 9:24pm

You have more in your code than the challenge wants you to. This is the minimum passing code:

def parse_answer(answer, kind="string")
  answer = answer.to_i if kind == "number"
  return answer
end

I'm not sure where the chomp came from and why you added things after the method. But you had the passing code there :)

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