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

Posted by Francisco Cunha
Francisco Cunha
3,017 Points

Can someone please tell me how can I append the "contact" hash to the array "contact_list"? I am stuck at this for ages

Task 3 of "Assigning Hash Values" in the Ruby Loops Module. I have tried "contact_list << contact" and contact_list.push(contact), but none of them worked...

contact.rb 
contact_list = []

contact = {"name" => get_name(), "phone_number" => get_phone_number() }
def get_name()
  return "any string"
end
def get_phone_number()
  return "any string"
end

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Francisco,

You are right with the .push method, but the reason you are not able to pass is because you added much more than what the challenge asked for.

When you are the assigning values to the keys, the challenge tells you to "Assume that get_name() returns a string." It doesn't tell you to define a method that returns a string. So even the your code is technically correct, it is wrong based on what the challenge asked.

Just remove all the methods you created and you will be good to go. The completed code should be exactly this:

contact_list = []

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

contact_list.push(contact)

Keep Coding! :)

Francisco Cunha
Francisco Cunha
3,017 Points

Thanks Jason! Great advice!