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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:47:35+00:00

The Rails console doesn’t seem to like multiple ruby statements on the same line

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The Rails console doesn’t seem to like multiple ruby statements on the same line separated by a semicolon. Whenever I do this, the next line starts with ?> and I find that only the first statement was executed. Do you have to put each statement on a separate line?

>> user = User.new
user = User.new

=> #<User id: nil, username: "", hashed_password: "", first_name: "", last_name: "", email: "", display_name: "", user_level: 0, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil, posts_count: 0>

>> user.username = "John"; hashed_password = "John"; first_name = "John"; last_name = "coltrane"; email = "John@coltrane.com"; display_name = "Johndispay"; user_level = 9; 
user.username = "John"; hashed_password = "John"; first_name = "John"; last_name = "coltrane"; email = "John@coltrane.com"; display_name = "Johndispay"; user_level = 9; 

?> user.save
user.save

=> true

Everything except user.username = "John"; was ignored

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to say “user.” so Ruby knows you mean to call the attribute assignment methods of the instance of user. Otherwise, you are just setting local variables called “hashed_password”, etc.

    >> user.username = "John"; user.hashed_password = "John"; user.first_name = "John"; user.last_name = "coltrane"; user.email = "John@coltrane.com"; user.display_name = "Johndispay"; user.user_level = 9;

    Although, you could just pass a hash of the attributes you want to set on the new instance, like so 

    >> user = User.new(:username => "John", :hashed_password => "John", ...
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