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Simon Goldman
1,028 Pointsarray added to a hash
i have no idea how to even right this part of the code?? (im lost at this point)
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
grocery_item["food"] = true
end
2 Answers
Stefan Frank
5,990 PointsHi Simon,
I think Tasks 1 isn't passing, because you got Tasks 2 wrong. So let's fix that:
Make sure that you call the key itself [hash_name.has_value?("key")] and not the index, when you use values_at. I don't think that hashes are sorted in Ruby, so they don't have an index.
You don't need "def" here. With "def" you create a new method.
Use "grocery_list" as a new variable and then assign the "grocery_item.values_at("item")" inside of two brackets [] to that variable. With those two brackets you create the array and by adding the values_at part inside of it, it automatically adds those values to the array.
Here is my solution:
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
grocery_item["food"] = true
end
grocery_list = [grocery_item.values_at("item")]
Stefan Frank
5,990 PointsHi Simon,
As you have seem to have found the right answer for Tasks 1 already, you are talking about Tasks 2 of the challenge, right?
Using the values_at method, create an array called grocery_list with the value of the grocery_item hash at the "item" key.
It asks you to use the values_at method Ruby-Doc, which returns an array with the values associated with the given key.
You want to find the value associated with the key "food" of the "grocery_item"-hash. The value is going to be "true", as you have created it in Tasks 1 of the challenge. value_at already returns an array, you just have to assign the returned value to the variable "grocery_list".
Simon Goldman
1,028 Pointsgrocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" } if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread") grocery_item["food"] = true end
def grocery_list.values_at(0) end
it keeps on saying that that task one is no lionger passing when i put through the code??