Problem with Code Academy/Case

Ruby
1

I am in the midst of learning how to use Ruby with Code Academy and I am
stuck. I have a case block that works perfectly fine, but gives me an
error when I try to run it. The error is oops, try again. It looks like
your case statement doesn’t puts ‘Added!’ when choice == ‘add’.
The code I am using is:
case choice
when “add”
puts “Added!”
when “update”
puts “Updated!”
when “display”
puts “Movies!”
when “delete”
puts “Deleted!”
else
puts “Error!”
end

Any help on this would be great. Thanks!

2

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Gregg Martinson
[email protected] wrote:

when "display"
    puts "Movies!"
when "delete"
    puts "Deleted!"
else
    puts "Error!"

end

Any help on this would be great. Thanks!

The case is correct:

2.0.0p195 :013 > choice = “add”
=> “add”
2.0.0p195 :014 > case choice
2.0.0p195 :015?> when “add”
2.0.0p195 :016?> puts “Added!”
2.0.0p195 :017?> when “update”
2.0.0p195 :018?> puts “Updated!”
2.0.0p195 :019?> when “display”
2.0.0p195 :020?> puts “Movies!”
2.0.0p195 :021?> when “delete”
2.0.0p195 :022?> puts “Deleted!”
2.0.0p195 :023?> else
2.0.0p195 :024 > puts “Error!”
2.0.0p195 :025?> end
Added!

so that means that choice doesn’t contain what you think. A wild
guess: if you are reading it from user input with gets, maybe you are
not removing the new line character (\n) at the end?
If that’s the case, you can do that with the chomp method:

choice = gets.chomp

Hope this helps,

Jesus.

3

That was all in the code that I didn’t clip. My guess is that
codeacademy
has a bug. Thanks Jesus!

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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Jesús Gabriel y Galán <

4

This kind of thing has happened to me before on CA, tests failing when I
know they are correct. Logging out and logging back in fixed it for me.
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