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Now that you know a little bit of Ruby, let's put together your first project! In this one, we'll write a small program that will format a user's input.

Putting the Form in Formatter

All right! Now we need to repeat what we've done for `last_name`, `city`, and `state`.

Repeat for More Input

Good! Now let's try something new. You may have noticed this weird little line of code repeated in our example:
```rb
variable_name = gets.chomp
```
`gets` is the Ruby method that *gets* input from the user. When getting input, Ruby automatically adds a blank line (or **newline**) after each bit of input; `chomp` removes that extra line. (Your program will work fine without `chomp`, but you'll get extra blank lines everywhere.)

Getting Input

First, let's write the code we're already familiar with. In order to get input from the user, we'll first need to `print` a prompt on the screen.

Prompting the User

This project will help you create a small program that will read a user's input and correct his or her capitalization. Users can provide an almost infinite range of input, so it makes our lives easier as programmers to make their input standard before doing anything with it.

What You'll Be Building

Perfect! In just a few short steps, you've created your own Ruby program with real-world applications. Feel free to add to your program or change it as much as you like.

Great Work!

Great! Now we've got our output, but as you can see, we haven't used string methods to properly capitalize everything yet.

```rb
print "This is my question?"
answer = gets.chomp
answer2 = answer.capitalize 
answer.capitalize!
```

1. First we introduce one new method, `capitalize`, here. It capitalizes the first letter of a string and makes the rest of the letters lower case. We assign the result to `answer2`
2. The next line might look a little strange, we don't assign the result of `capitalize` to a variable. Instead you might notice the `!` at the end of `capitalize`. This modifies the value contained within the variable `answer` itself. The next time you use the variable `answer` you will get the results of `answer.capitalize` 


Formatting with String Methods

As you may have noticed, Ruby's not returning any feedback to us. We want to be able to see our string formatting in action! For this, we'll need one more new piece of syntax.

If you define a variable `monkey` that's equal to the string `"Curious George"`, and then a string that says `"I took #{monkey} to the zoo"`, Ruby will do something called _string interpolation_ and replace the `#{monkey}` bit with the value of `monkey`. Therefore, it will print `"I took Curious George to the zoo"`. 

We can do the same thing here. For example:

```rb
first_name = "Kevin"
puts "Your name is #{first_name}!"
```

The code above will print `Your name is Kevin!`.