Ruby Challenge: Calculating Factorials with Negative Numbers

Welcome to Ruby Tuesday, a weekly post where we explore the world of Ruby programming language. Today's challenge is all about modifying a factorial method in Ruby to handle negative input numbers.

In this code, the factorial method takes a number n as input and recursively calculates its factorial. The base case is when n is 0, in which case the method returns 1. Otherwise, the method multiplies n by the factorial of n-1.

When we call factorial(5) using the puts method, it calculates the factorial of 5 (i.e., 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1) and outputs the result, which is 120.

def factorial(n)if n == 01elsen * factorial(n-1)endendputs factorial(5) # outputs 120

Challenge:

Modify the factorial method to handle negative input numbers.

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