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Solutions: Printing Shapes Exercises

Understand how to print shapes in Ruby by exploring solutions for a rhombus, hollow square, and heart. Learn to use loops, conditional logic, and spacing calculations to create these patterns.

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Print a rhombus

Ruby 3.1.2
hashtag = "#"

space = " "

width.times do |row|

  space_count = width - row  - 1

  print space * space_count

  puts hashtag * width 

end

Explanation

  • Line 4: We subtracted the current row’s value from the total number of rows to calculate spaces. Note that we also subtracted an additional 1 ...