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Ruby

Daniel Wise
Daniel Wise
9,119 Points
Posted by Daniel Wise
Daniel Wise
9,119 Points

Having troubles with this array project

This part of a lab I have been working on is requiring us to create a method that returns a string "Hello, my name is #{name}." and then pass that method into an array in another method. Here is what I have made so far. 

def badge_maker(name)
     name = "Arel"
     say_hello = "Hello, my name is #{name}."
     return say_hello 
end 

def batch_badge_creator(attendies)
    attendies = ["Edsger", "Ada", "Charles", "Alan", "Grace", "Linus","Matz"]
    attendies.each do 
        return "Hello, my name is #{attendies}"
    end 
end

What I cannot figure out is how to get the batch_badge_creator to print out the names with the "Hello, my name is #{name}" string to each name (it should print out a list saying Hello my name is Edsger, Hello my name is Ada, ect). This should be using the badge_maker method above. Hoping to get some help for this one.

1 Answer

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

Daniel,

There's a few things you should be considering here:

  1. If you have a method parameter, you'd be setting that value when you execute the method, you don't need to set it again inside. Here's what I mean...

You have

def badge_maker(name)
    ...
end

So you execute that you'd just call badge_maker("Arel")

  1. A method can only return one thing. So your second method doing a look of returns isn't going to work, but it will only return the first return.

Here's what I would say... your badge_maker method should take an array then create your array of names and loop through that using puts.

So given this code, what might your method for badge_maker look like?

attendees = ["Edsger", "Ada", "Charles", "Alan", "Grace", "Linus","Matz"]
badge_maker(attendees)