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Ruby

Jakob Wozniak
Jakob Wozniak
17,896 Points
Posted by Jakob Wozniak
Jakob Wozniak
17,896 Points

Bug with "Working with Hash Keys" Challenge-

There seems to be a bug with this challenge; I've tried many different ways of adding the key value pair "food" => true, but every time I get an error message saying "Food was not found".

The objective is 'Using the has_key? method, check if the hash variable has a key called "calories". If it does, set a new variable called "food" to true.'

Here's my code.

hash = { "name" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "calories" => 100 }

if hash.has_key?("calories")
  hash["food"] = true
end

1 Answer

Jakob Wozniak
Jakob Wozniak
17,896 Points
Jakob Wozniak
Jakob Wozniak
17,896 Points

Wow. Turns out it wanted a brand new variable called food, not a new key-value pair. I must say, that's extremely misleading, especially since food is in quotes (like it's wanting a string). I can't imagine why you wouldn't want that as a value pair; why would you have a general variable called food?! Maybe we_have_food, or hash_has_food.

Lol, I just wasted 20 minutes on this!