Ruby Question

Question

Hi, I'm trying to make a simple program in Ruby for my civics class, it's written like this:

puts "What conflict would you like to cover?"
myVar = gets.chomp

if myVar = "North Korea"
puts "You have chosen North Korea"
if myVar = "Syria"
puts "You have chosen Syria"
end
end

The purpose is, if a person enters North Korea or Syria in the user input box, the console prints "You have chosen (conflict)", I want to develop it further and add some more scenarios later, but right now, I'm getting the following error from the console:

..\Playground\:6: warning: found = in conditional, should be ==
..\Playground\:4: warning: found = in conditional, should be ==

So I assumed I was supposed to change the = to ==, which just didn't leave any result other than the "What conflict would you like to cover?".

I'm confused at what to do, how do I make the code correct and that it prints "You have chosen (conflict)" based on user input?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Here is the edited example of your code.
https://code.sololearn.com/cKjDy871VdlU/?ref=app

Answer 2

Oh, thanks. I see what I did now, appreciate the fast responses!

Answer 3

I would suggest you another thing. Add to your variable myVar a downcase method before comparing and then compare to 'north korea' or 'syria'.
That way you will cover people inserting all the manners it could be inserted, like:
North Korea
NORTH KOREA
north korea
NoRtH KoReA
ans so on...

it would be something like
if myVar.downcase == 'north korea'

Answer 4

I want an example of Ruby