Question

Hi I’m trying to make a blackjack game using Ruby and am trying to make the values of the picture cards all = 10. Is it okay to use the code I use below to accomplish this? (this is all happening in my Card class)

def value
  if @number == ("jack" || "queen" || "king")
    10
  else
    @number.to_i
  end
end

Answer 1

You can, but not the way you are using it. You either need to use the entire boolean expression in each portion:

if @number == "jack" || @number == "queen" || @number == "king"

or you can make it simpler by checking the contents of an array:

if ["jack", "queen", "king"].include?(@number)