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Ruby Ruby Foundations Ruby Basics IRB and Your First Ruby Program

Posted by ROBERT LABUDA
ROBERT LABUDA
13,901 Points

Ruby error: undefined local variable

I'm receiving this message from terminal:

$ ruby hello.rb hello.rb:1:in <main>': undefined local variable or methodworld”' for main:Object (NameError)

I have textmate setup properly with shell scripting support installed. I'm wondering if the clash is with RVM and RBENV. I recall reading somewhere in the RBENV doc that having RVM would disrupt it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Can you show the code that you are trying to run?

Product Team
Product Team
6,835 Points

Robert, do you know how you fixed this? I am getting the same message.

2 Answers

ROBERT LABUDA
ROBERT LABUDA
13,901 Points
ROBERT LABUDA
ROBERT LABUDA
13,901 Points

$ruby hello.rb

It is the basic puts "Hello World" program.

Error message:

hello.rb:1:in <main>': undefined local variable or methodworld”' for main:Object (NameError)

Jack Choi
Jack Choi
11,420 Points
Jack Choi
Jack Choi
11,420 Points

Does running the same line in irb work?

$ irb
> puts "Hello World"
ROBERT LABUDA
ROBERT LABUDA
13,901 Points

yes it does.

ROBERT LABUDA
ROBERT LABUDA
13,901 Points

I'm not sure what happened, but everything is now working.