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Ruby Ruby Collections Build a Grocery List Program Working with Hashes That Contain Arrays

Posted by Sara Brothers
Sara Brothers
7,341 Points

Make a grocery list Challenge 1 Task 1

I do not understand

shopping_list.rb 
grocery_list = { 'title' => 'Grocery List', 'items' => [] }
grocery_item = { 'title' => 'Bread', 'quantity' => 1 }

hash =  {  grocery_list => grocery_item, 'items' => [] }

1 Answer

Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points
Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
30,003 Points

Hello, Sara! Sometimes the question can be confusing! I had to read it a couple times again even though I completed it before. It's asking you to put the "grocery_item" hash to the items array INSIDE of the grocery_list hash The items hash is already there in the first line! The code should look something like below:

grocery_list['items'].push(grocery_item)

If that still doesn't make sense I'd suggest watching the video again. Often I just find the wording in the challenges to throw me off though. Code on!