From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T10:05:21+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm New

From: stanislaus_d@hotmail.com [mailto:stanislaus_d@hotmail.com] 
# puts 'Speak up Sonny I can\'t hear you.'
# talk = gets.chomp
# if talk == talk.capitalize or talk.downcase
#   then puts 'What? Sonny speak louder! Like THIS.'
# if talk == talk.upcase
#   then puts 'no not since'
# end
# end

welcome to ruby!

simplify your program by asking simple/few if questions, and deducing fr it.

compare it eg w,

puts "SPEAK up, Sonny, I can't hear you."
talk = gets.chomp
if talk == talk.upcase
  puts 'no not since'
else
  puts 'What? Sonny, speak louder! Like THIS.'
end


# When you run it, and say something in Caps it returns both if puts
# things so I don't know how to fix it.

you had a problem along this line,

   if talk == talk.capitalize or talk.downcase

talk.downcase always return true, ergo the whole or expression/condition always returns true.

maybe you wanted

   if talk == talk.capitalize or talk==talk.downcase



as you progess, you'll probably then realize that this is a trivial problem that you yourself can handily fix.

read more about ruby expressions and control structures. breakup problems into smaller problems.

use irb. run one statement/expression at a time. check all possible cases.

go slow first. stop if you need rest, but keep on studying/programming ;)

hth.

kind regards -botp