Ruby

[Gnu/Vince]

Hey klamath, since you're the Ruby expert, could you show us how to do something simple? Like:

Ask for Name
Ask for Age
YearofBirth = CurrentYear - Age
Print "Your name is Name and you were bron in YearofBirth"

[XxMaCaBrExX]

or how about:

Print "IMADUMBASS";

:P

[osnap]

What I do know is a simple way of getting user input is something like:
def getName
print "What is your name? "
STDIN.gets.chomp!
end

then ask for it by putting getName somewhere and it will ask for your name.

To get the year you use something like this:

t = Time.now
t.year

and it will return the year it is.

I've been trying to get it to subtract the age from the year though and haven't figured it out yet.

[osnap]

Here it is I figured it out, this is just a quick and dirty way i think and it's not very accurate because you need to ask for the month and day too.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby


def getName
print "What is your name? "
STDIN.gets.chomp!
end


def getAge
print "What is your age? "
STDIN.gets.chomp!
end


t = Time.now
name = getName
age = getAge
year = t.year


yearborn = year.to_i - age.to_i


print "Your name is #{name} and you were born in #{yearborn}\n"

[ 09 February 2001: Message edited by: osnap ]

[jemfinch]

<the sound of me holding back>

:D

Jeremy

[osnap]

Here's pretty much the same thing except I used a class.


#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class Getit
def getName
print "What is your name? "
STDIN.gets.chomp!
end

def getAge
print "What is your age? "
STDIN.gets.chomp!
end
end

it = Getit.new
name = it.getName
age = it.getAge
year = Time.now.year

yearborn = year.to_i - age.to_i

print "Your name is #{name} and you were born in #{yearborn}\n"