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Ruby

Posted by Jayson Ash
Jayson Ash
3,501 Points

What is wrong with my case statement?

Calling this method results in either no console output at all or 3 lines of output that looks exactly like this:

Trenchcoat!11
Backpack!
Gun!

I don't understand why execution continues to evaluate all of the when statements when only one possible when statement applies at any given time. Here is my code:

  def on_blackmarket(params)
    case params[:item]
    when :storage_small
      puts "Trenchcoat!11"
    when :storage_large
      puts "Backpack!"
    when :gun
      puts "Gun!"
    else
      puts "Nothing!"
    end
  end

1 Answer

Jayson Ash
Jayson Ash
3,501 Points

oh shoot, I figured out the method is being called 3 times when it does get called on random chance and each time it has a new value.