[Rails] Re: Re: Concatenate two arrays

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Froelich
Frederick Cheung wrote in post #1120015: > On Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:02:10 PM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User > wrote: >> > Dheeraj's code has optional arguments. In such circumstances arity will > return a negative number (where -1 means that the method requires at > least > 0 arguments, -1 would

[Rails] Re: Re: Concatenate two arrays

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Froelich
Dheeraj Kumar wrote in post #1120004: > Could you paste your test? > > -- > Dheeraj Kumar The code for the number of arguments and the part which is failing is it "requires two arguments" do method(:array_sum).arity.should eq 2 end Thanks Dheeraj. Quick question about the pick axe boo

[Rails] Re: Concatenate two arrays

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Froelich
Dheeraj Kumar wrote in post #1119995: > def array_sum(array1 = [], array2 = []) > array1 + array2 > end > > array_sum([1,2,3], [4,5,6]) > => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] > > > -- > Dheeraj Kumar Is there a reason why when i would run a test it would say -1 arguments instead of 2? You had listed two (arra

[Rails] Re: Concatenate two arrays

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Froelich
Dheeraj Kumar wrote in post #1119998: > Colin is right. You should try reading a book, like this one: > http://pragprog.com/book/ruby4/programming-ruby-1-9-2-0 > > -- > Dheeraj Kumar Hi Colin and Dheeraj, First off thanks for your help. It is actually quite funny, I ordered that exact book a few

[Rails] Concatenate two arrays

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Froelich
Hello again ruby community! I just learned how to add two arrays(I know, i know). My program looked like this array1=[1,2,3] array2=[4,5,6] array_sum=array1+array2 I thought pretty simple stuff, they are combined. However, now i am looking to define that code as a method and I do not understand

[Rails] Re: Using Match with Regexp-Do not quite understand the formula

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Froelich
Walter Davis wrote in post #1119974: > On Aug 29, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Alex Froelich wrote: > >>>> >>> 1.9.3p429 :003 > >>> >> puts "Yes, Movies are awesome!" >> >> thanks, >> Alex > > Your method is called welcome(), but

[Rails] Re: Using Match with Regexp-Do not quite understand the formula

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Froelich
Walter Davis wrote in post #1119949: > On Aug 29, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Alex Froelich wrote: > >> Hi Ruby on Rails community! >> >> I am trying to write a program that uses the .match command to find out >> if a string contains a certain word-then using that info

[Rails] Using Match with Regexp-Do not quite understand the formula

2013-08-29 Thread Alex Froelich
Hi Ruby on Rails community! I am trying to write a program that uses the .match command to find out if a string contains a certain word-then using that information write a conditional statement. The issue I am running into is that I am self teaching myself and do not really know how to properly us