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Ruby Build an Address Book in Ruby Class Design Initializing and Calling Methods

Braedon Angel
Braedon Angel
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I have the code but i dont know where to put it. Please Help with Ruby

address = Address.new("kind", "street_1", "street_2", "city,", "state", "postal_code") thats the code i need to use, i just dont know where to put it outside the class. Please Help me. - thanks

address.rb
class Address
  attr_accessor :kind, :street_1, :street_2, :city, :state, :postal_code

  def initialize(kind, street_1, street_2, city, state, postal_code)
    @kind = kind or ''
    @street_1 = street_1 or ''
    @street_2 = street_2 or ''
    @city = city or ''
    @state = state  or ''
    @postal_code = postal_code or ''
  end

  def to_s(format = 'short')
    address = ''
    case format
    when 'long'
      address += street_1 + "\n"
      address += street_2 + "\n" if !street_2.nil?
      address += "#{city}, #{state} #{postal_code}"
    when 'short'
      address += "#{kind}: "
      address += street_1
      if street_2
        address += " " + street_2
      end
      address += ", #{city}, #{state}, #{postal_code}"
    end
    address
  end
end

1 Answer

Brian Jensen
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Brian Jensen
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Hiya Braedon Angel! :wave:

Great work instantiating a new Address! It needs to be placed at the global scope level, below the class definition. So, line 31 or lower in this case.