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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Leonardo Escalante
Leonardo Escalante
3,190 Points

This question is for support

I dont understand why my code is not working. In the first challenge it tells me that is succesful but in the second part it doesn't recognize the first part of the code:

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

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

1 Answer

Abigail Glunn
Abigail Glunn
10,068 Points
Abigail Glunn
Abigail Glunn
10,068 Points

Hi Leonardo, I'm not on the support team (maybe they could provide a more detailed explanation of the error message!) but it looks like your code for the second challenge is interfering with the first challenge code.

grocery_list should be an array (not a hash) and should be created from the items in grocery_item:

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", "quantity")]

Hope that helps!