Perhaps using elsif instead of elseif will help. But your code makes no attempt to return a value, so the nil is expected. If you are planning on returning a value, do something like this: result = if person == "Somebody" "foo" elsif person == "Another" "else if returned" else "no match" end
On Apr 23, 12:07 pm, DrV <thevalent...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been working on a new project and created a custom method for one > of the models. Nothing major. > > I brought up the console in --sandbox mode (also have tried in > standard console), and tried playing with it. To my surprise there > was a problem with the if/elseif conditional. The elseif portion > simply would not work. So I tried a couple commands as so to test the > actual if/elseif integrity like so: > > person = "Jim" > if person == "Sally" > puts "Hi Sally" > elseif person == "Jim" > puts "Hi Jim" > end > > This returns nil. If I put a final <else> catch it will return that > value. What am I doing wrong? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
