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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Gad Levy
Gad Levy
2,224 Points

create an array called grocery_list with the value of the grocery_item hash at the "item" ke

cant work it out>..?

hash.rb 
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company", "food" => false }


if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
  grocery_item.store("food", true)
end

grocery_list = Array.new
grocery_list["item"] = :(grocery_item.values_at("item"))

1 Answer

Aaron Kaye
Aaron Kaye
10,948 Points
Aaron Kaye
Aaron Kaye
10,948 Points

I think you want to use the push method because you are appending that item (bread) to the new array

grocery_list = Array.new
grocery_list.push(grocery_item.values_at("item"))