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Ruby Ruby Loops Build a Simple Contact List Assigning Hash Values From Methods

assign the value of the key name

I'm not sure if I understand the question, can anyone explain please?

contact.rb
contact_list = []

contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" }

def add_contact
contact["name"].push(get_name())

end

1 Answer

You need to assign the value returned from the contact.get_name method into the contact["name"]

wow, simpler than i made it out to be, thank you!