From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2012-02-07T03:36:24+09:00
Subject: Re: formal argument cannot be a constant

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Hasmukh Patel <tohasmukh@yahoo.com> wrote:
> def display_method(NM)
>  puts "I am in Display Method #{NM}"
> end
>
> for I in 0..5
>  display_method "Testing Ruby MEthod"
>  if I<2
>    break
>  end
> end
>
> Hi, I am new learner in ruby, and getting error say "formal argument
> cannot be a constant" Can any one help me pls?

In Ruby, constants start with upper case letter, the error message
tells you that you cannot have a constant as a parameter to the
method. Downcase it:

def display_method(nm)
  puts "I am in Display Method #{nm}"
end

and you should be good to go.

Jesus.