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Rafael Herazo
18,114 PointsI honestly don't understand the instructions. Please help
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.
contact_list = []
contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" }
I've tried everything!!
This is what I have
def get_name() contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" } contact["name"] = ??? return contact end
I only get Bummer! Try again.
This is frustrating!
2 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHi Rafael,
The challenge wants you to assign the returned value of get_name() to the key of name. So, you have everything pretty much right, except where you have an empty string ("") for name, you need to call the get_name() function instead.
contact = {"name" => get_name(), "phone_number" => "" }
Hope this helps. Keep Coding! :)
Rafael Herazo
18,114 PointsThanks a lot, I was just writing too much code. Thanks again!
Rafael Herazo
18,114 PointsRafael Herazo
18,114 PointsThanks for your help, I still get an error message because I don't know what it means by Assume that get_name() returns a string
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsJason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsThe code posted above will pass Task 1.
As for, assume that get_name ... ... Sometimes the challenges, instead of presenting all the code, will have you 'imagine' that there is a function called get_name() and that a string has been passed as the argument (therefore returning a string) and then wants you to write the remaining code base on all these assumptions.
In this case, imagine that instead of passing in an actual string, you are passing in the function with a string as an argument, and the only purpose of the function is to return the argument. It would be the same as
contact = {"name" => get_name('Jason'), "phone_number" => "" }I hope this starts to make sense for you. :)