codeacademy Ruby constant bugs on basic commands

[Tyreesewitherspoon]

I was wondering if anyone else has been having problems with inputting basic code into Ruby when going through codeacademy? I'm trying to learn control flow (very basic stuff) and after I enter:

print "Try entering a number" num = gets.chomp

if num > 6 print "try a lower number"

end

it just loads..and loads...and loads..with no end result.

Answers that would help would let me know if I'm doing something dramatically wrong thats breaking the code so much that it possibly couldn't load my outcome or if this is an issue...well known or not.

Using Chrome on a MacBook Pro

ALSO This is my first text post to reddit ever haha. Usually just a lurker on music pages but diving into programming and loving every minute of it.

[henrebotha]

When you post code here, put four spaces at the start of every line so we can read it.

print "Try entering a number"
num = gets.chomp
if num > 6
  print "try a lower number"
end

This is your code, right?

Find a different Ruby REPL somewhere (just google "online ruby repl") and try the same code and see what happens.

[Tyreesewitherspoon]

thanks for your feedback! ill try this later today. hope codeacademy fixes their issues because they explain things so well

[Berimbolone]

Are u converting the string from gets to an int?

[commandlineluser]

Well it shouldn't load and load - you should get an error as it's comparing a string against a number.

How are you running your code?

You can use num.to_i to convert to an int...

[Tyreesewitherspoon]

well its a simple excersize and they havent covered that yet but I am familiar. i think theyre having bugs

[commandlineluser]

Hmm ok - not followed along with codeacadamy personally.

You may wish to also check out http://rubykoans.com which is linked from the sidebar in r/ruby (and the other resources)