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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

daniwao
daniwao
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Posted by daniwao
daniwao
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Adding to Ruby Hash

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. It seems to me that I'm supposed to create a new temp_hash and then give it the key/value pair and then append it to the end of the grocery_item hash.

1 Answer

Ricky Walker
Ricky Walker
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Ricky Walker
Ricky Walker
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Hi Dan. When adding items to a hash, you can use bracket notation with the name of the hash. For instance, if you want to add to the grocery_item hash, you'd use:

grocery_item[:item2] = "eggs"

I'm not sure if this completely answers your question because I can't see your code or the problem you're working on. Let me know if this provides some insight or if you have to use different notation.

daniwao
daniwao
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daniwao
daniwao
13,125 Points

Thanks Ricky. That's basically what I was wondering. I was using a merge. Here's my final code below that got it to pass. Thanks again!

grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" } grocery_item.has_value?("Bread") grocery_item["food"] = true