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

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Posted by Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Assigning Hash Values from Methods, Task 1

Hi.

Does anyone know why my code doesn't work?

Thanks. :-)

contact.rb 
def get_name(kind = "string")
  contact_list = []
  contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" }
end

1 Answer

John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points
John Steer-Fowler
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points

Hi Sean,

I'm afraid that's not what the question is asking for at all.

It's asking you to assign the value of the key "name" to the return of the get_name() method.

There's no need to define any methods, we are assuming that a method is already pre-defined.

Try something like:

contact = {"name" => get_name(), "phone_number" => "" }

Hope this helps.