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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Kent Drummond
Kent Drummond
8,309 Points

Task 2 of challenge. Task 1 is no longer correct?

everytime i enter the code it says task 1 is no longer correct. I have verified my code with others QA and cant seem to figure out what is going on?

grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" } grocery_item["food"] = true if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread") grocery_list[‘items’].push(grocery_item)

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

1 Answer

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 Points

Hey Kent,

your code has a few mistakes in it. You're trying to access the grocery_list array but you haven't even created it yet. And even if you would've created it the way you're trying to access it is only possible with hashes but not with arrays (also note that you didn't use quotes but accent characters). The other problems is that you're pushing the whole hash grocery_item to the array instead of just filling it with the value at item with the values_at method that the challenge wants you to use. If you fix the mentioned problems you should end up with something like this:

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

I hope that helps. If you don't understand something or have further questions feel free to ask, good luck! :)