FAQ: Object-Oriented Programming II - Private Affairs

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Hey, just wanted to point out that passwords should be passed as strings, not numbers. Whily Ruby converts freely between these two types, this password should have been returned as “12345” not just 12345.

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Hi all,
I’m stuck at the private method stage, although the exercise seems to be very easy. The code runs but I don’t pass the test, without any error message or hint. Can you help me out?
My code:
class Application
attr_accessor :status
def initialize; end

Add your method here!

public
def print_status
puts “All systems go!”
end
private
def password
returns “12345”
end
end

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It should be
return 12345

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It should be clearly stated in the lesson Instructions that the method should return a Number. I got stuck for a min trying to figure out why it doesn’t accept my string.