Working with Nesting Logic in Ruby

So you want to talk about nesting logic? Ok, let's do it. We can talk about elsif too.

For a while, I didn't get why a piece of code such as:

puts "I don't need an end, dude"

Didn't need to be written as

puts "I don't need an end, dude"
end

While something like this:

fruit = "potato"
if fruit == "orange"
color = "orange"
puts "You have an orange."
elsif fruit == "apple"
color = "green"
puts "You have a green apple."
elsif fruit == "banana"
color = "yellow"
puts "You have a banana."
else
color = "unknown"
puts "You have something that I don't know what it is."
end

DOES need the end delimiter. (I didn't know this was called a delimiter. Is that what everyone calls it? It sounds more like something the Ghostbusters would use than a piece of code but ok)

But when I was finishing up Chapter 3 in Beginning Ruby, it made sense. You need the end to tell Ruby that the previous argument is over. It's DONE, Ruby. Let's start a new one! Am I thinking about this in the right way?

So far my learning has been something like I'm given a piece of the puzzle, by Beginning Ruby or a friend or a tutorial online and I don't fully get what the piece is for until I work a little further.

Also while I was working on stuff tonight I built a perpetual motion machine.

x = 1
while x = 1
puts x
end

Perpetual until you stop the task anyway!

Really looking forward to digging into Chapter 4 this weekend. It walks you through building a functional (though basic) Ruby program and I think some real practical experience will do me a world of good.