puts 'Hello, what year were you born in?'
puts 'please put in a number. (e.g. 1985)'
x = gets.chomp
puts 'And month?'
y = gets.chomp
puts 'And day?'
z = gets.chomp

def birthdaySpanking(year, month, day)
  birthday = Time.mktime(year, month, day)
  currentYear = Time.now.strftime("%Y").to_i
  spanks = currentYear - birthday.year
  puts "SPANK! \n" * spanks
  puts "you were spanked #{spanks} times for each year of your birthday"
end

puts birthdaySpanking(x, y, z)

#print a "spank" for each year the responder was born.

#Then, print out the "spank"s.

This program isn’t complete, but I thought I’d post it anyway. Will try to finish later tonight.

I was having a hard time figuring out what embedded while loops did under if end statements. The above program illustrates that if the gets equals the string chris, then the bye while loop will start. If it’s something else, then the hello while loop will start. I was confused by initially reading the code as “if name equals chris, while…”. When coding these types of statements, read them this way: “if x equals chris statement is true, run this while statement”. Keep the two as separate modules.

 class Fruit
  def banana
  puts "this tastes banana-y"
 end

 def blueberry
  puts "I could make pancakes with this..."
 end

 def watermelon
  puts "This is good for summer cook outs!"
 end
end

eat = Fruit.new
eat.banana
eat.blueberry
eat.watermelon

What do you guys think of this code?

EDIT:

I thought about it some more, and I could pass a variable in each of the methods like so:

class Fruit
 def eat(x)
  puts "I ate #{x} today."
 end
end

whatidid = Fruit.new
whatidid.eat("bananas")

This is an angry teenager method spitting out her hate for her family for being uncool.