gistfile1.rb

#define the empty variable text
text =''

#define the line_count variable as 0.
line_count = 0

#open the text file I am working with, and use the each method to iterate 
#each line and place it into the variable 'line'
File.open("text.txt").each do |line|
  #add 1 for each line during each iterated line. (Loop until each line is processed?)
  line_count += 1

  #add each line to the text variable - not sure why this is line, not line_count?!
  text << line
end

#print the total count 
puts "#{line_count} lines"