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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Kent Drummond
Kent Drummond
8,309 Points

has_value?

not sure what I'm doing wrong with has_value?

hash.rb 
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
["food"] => true

1 Answer

Brandon McClelland
Brandon McClelland
4,645 Points
Brandon McClelland
Brandon McClelland
4,645 Points

It looks to me that the error is not with .has_value? but with updating the hash to have the new member. Your third line doesn't actually refer to any existing hashes....