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3,502 Pointsi am pretty lost, i am not sure if i have to add the name = Name.new, and if i have to add in title to the methods
do i create a new method called title? kind of lost on this question: In the initialize method of the Name class, set an instance variable called @title to the title argument. Note: you will have to write the initialize method.
class Name
def initialize(title, first_name, last_name)
@title = title
@first_name = first_name
@last_name = last_name
def title
@title
end
def first_name
@first_name
end
def last_name
@last_name
end
end
name = Name.new("mr.", "apple", "john")
2 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHi James,
First off, you have added more than what the challenge is asking for, and that will most often cause a "Bummer!" even if the code is correct.
The first part wants an initialize method with "title" set... but you also added "first_name" and "last_name" which was not asked for. If you delete those you'll be good.
Also, the last part wants you to call the "title" method on the new Name (which has been assigned to the variable "name"), so you would just call the method name.title
.
Below is the corrected code for you.
class Name
def initialize (title) #only asks for "title"
@title = title
end
def title
@title
end
def first_name
"Metal"
end
def last_name
"Robot"
end
end
name = Name.new("mr.") #creating the new instance
name.title #calling the "title" method on the new Name
I hope this makes sense. Keep Coding! :)
Steve Hunter
57,712 PointsHi there,
For the first part of the challenge - the part that you've pasted the question for - just needs an initialize
method adding that takes one parameter. Then set the @title
to equal the parameter:
def initialize (title)
@title = title
end
That should get you on the way.
Steve.