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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Simon Goldman
Simon Goldman
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Posted by Simon Goldman
Simon Goldman
1,028 Points

Store_method

not sure why the store method isnt working over here for this objective??

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

1 Answer

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

you shouldn't need to use a method call on the Hash here, a simple bracket notation will do

if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
  grocery_item["food"] = true
end

If you wonder why the .store() didn't work in your code, that's because the syntax isn't correct. This method takes 2 arguments, with a comma as separator in between. https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Hash.html#method-i-store-label-Element+Assignment