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

Stephen Printup
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Stephen Printup
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Ruby Collections: Challenge 1 of 1: Hash

Create a method named "create_shopping_list" that returns a hash. It does not need to ask for a name or get anything from standard input.

I've tried

def create_shopping_list = Hash.new
  create_shopping_list[] 
  return hash
end 

as per the documentation at http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.2/Hash.html

and

def create_shopping_list
  print "What is the item called?"
  item_name = gets.chomp

  hash = { "name" => name }
  return hash
end

and

def create_shopping_list
  hash = { "name" => name }
  return hash
end

Among some other things. This seems really simple and I would appreciate some help.

-Stephen

1 Answer