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Ruby Ruby Collections Build a Grocery List Program Create a Method That Returns a Hash

dididadaya Zhao
dididadaya Zhao
1,319 Points
Posted by dididadaya Zhao
dididadaya Zhao
1,319 Points

don't understand

don't understand

shopping_list.rb 
def create_shopping_list
  hash ={"name"=> name,"item"=>Array.new}
  return hash 
end

1 Answer

tobiaskrause
tobiaskrause
9,160 Points

Hi like it is said in the challange the hash has NOT to contain anything (yet) So you already had it...but you made it more difficult :)

def create_shopping_list
  hash = {}
  return hash 
end