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Ruby

Posted by John Baulig
John Baulig
9,180 Points

todo_item.name

Why is it necessary to write **** todo_item.name == name **** instead of just **** todo_item == name ****?

Thanks!

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

Hi there. Not sure which challenge you're referring to. However, by the look of it. todo_item is an object in your Ruby code, todo_item == name is comparing an object against a String, which would always yield false; to properly compare the two, you need to retrieve the name property from todo object before doing the comparison. Hence todo_item.name == name.