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Start your free trialJared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,391 PointsI am so terribly stuck. I have no clue what to do here.
I have watched the video about 4 times now, and I still have no idea what to do. The challenge wants me to format the output in a way that is graphically pleasing; yet I have no idea how to go about doing that. Any help would be very much appreciated
class BankAccount
attr_reader :name
def initialize(name)
@name = name
@transactions = []
add_transaction("Beginning Balance", 0)
end
def balance
balance = 0
@transactions.each do |transaction|
balance += transaction[:amount]
end
balance
end
def debit(description, amount)
add_transaction(description, -amount)
end
def credit(description, amount)
add_transaction(description, amount)
end
def add_transaction(description, amount)
@transactions.push(description: description, amount: amount)
end
end
1 Answer
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHi Jared,
I think you may just be over-thinking the challenge. The video does explain the simple answer, but is mixed in with other formatting and methods. This challenge, however, just wants you to create a to_s
method to print the name and balance.
After the end
for the add_transaction
method, but before the final end
of the code is where you will place your to_s
method.
def add_transaction(description, amount)
@transactions.push(description: description, amount: amount)
end
def to_s
"Name: #{name}, Balance: #{balance}" # These 3 lines are what is needed for this challenge
end
end
Hope that helps. Keep Coding! :)
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,391 PointsJared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,391 PointsWow, thanks Jason! I was definitely over-thinking this issue, but then again, I figured that if I wasn't thinking about every little detail at once, I would miss something important. Ironically, it seems that I have!