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Ruby Ruby Booleans Build a Simple Todo List Program Returning Boolean Values: Part 2

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Can't get this Ruby boolean challenge to work.

Hi!

So I'm stuck. Not sure what else to try besides something relatively close to what I have:

 def contains?(name)
    todo_items.each do |item|
      if todo_items.item == name
        return true
      end
    end
  end

Any push in the right direction is appreciated!

1 Answer

Geoff Parsons
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You'll need to return false in cases where name is not one of the todo items; that can be done by adding return false as the last line of the method.

Also where you're checking to see if name is the current item in the loop you should be looking at item.name not todo_items.item as item is the current element you're inspecting:

if item.name == name