Question

In the following code example, why does the second (sheetplus) method seem to pick up the instance variables @name and @occupation fine, but the first (sheet) method return nil? I feel like I’m missing something deadly obvious, but I am basically the world’s worst Ruby programmer.

class Test
def initialize(name, occupation)
  @name = name
  @occupation = occupation
def sheet
  "This is #@name, who is a/an #@occupation"
def sheetplus
  "This is #@name, who is a/an #@occupation, but why does this method succeed where the previous one fails?"
end
end
end
end

Answer 1

If that is the code directly pasted in, you aren’t closing your initialize or sheet method definitions.

class Test
  def initialize(name, occupation)
    @name = name
    @occupation = occupation
  end
  def sheet
   "This is #@name, who is a/an #@occupation"
  end
  def sheetplus
    "This is #@name, who is a/an #@occupation, but why does this method succeed where the previous one fails?"
  end
end

Who knows what could happen at that point.