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

don't understand question

Assign the value of the key name to the return value of the method get_name() in the contact hash. Assume that get_name() returns a string.

im confused on this question, do we have to define the method get_name() in the code?

contact.rb
contact_list = []

contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" }

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

The key "name" needs to have the value of what get_name() method returns. As simple as that:

contact_list = []

contact = {"name" => get_name(), "phone_number" => "" }
Joseph Dunivan
Joseph Dunivan
2,742 Points

Just in case someone else comes here like I did.. to which I didn't find anything the answer looks like this,

#the get_name method is already defined
#in this case the question is asking you to assign the value of the key phone_number to the answer retrieved by the method get_name. It think people make the question more complicated than it really is
contact['name'] = get_name()