Ruby - if statement?

January 15, 2024

In Ruby, the if statement looks like this

val = 1

if val == 1
  p "Equality Checked!"
end

And for if else

val = 2

if val == 1
  p "Equality Checked!"
else
  p "Equality Unchecked!"
end

And for if, else if, else

val = 2

if val == 1
  p "Equality Checked!"
elsif val == 2
  p "Equality Middle Checked!"
else
  p "Equality Unchecked!"
end

Also, remember that everything in ruby returns a value, so your if statement can return a value that could be stored in another variable.

val = 2

# store the returned value from the if statement
ret_val = if val == 1
  p "Equality Checked!"
else
  p "Equality Unchecked!"
end

p ret_val # => "Equality Unchecked!"

Dhanyavaad! 🙇

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