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Ruby Ruby Booleans Build a Simple Todo List Program Returning Boolean Values: Part 2

alison yun
alison yun
4,620 Points
Posted by alison yun
alison yun
4,620 Points

trying to return a boolean value in the "contains?" method

I am not sure why it says "contains?" method is not returning a boolean value in the following I wrote:

def contains?(name) if todo_items.include?(name) == true return true else return false end end

todo_list.rb 
class TodoList
  attr_reader :name, :todo_items

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
    @todo_items = []
  end

  def add_item(name)
    todo_items.push(TodoItem.new(name))
  end

  def contains?(name)
    if todo_items.include?(name) == true
      return true
    else
      return false
    end
  end

  def find_index(name)
    index = 0
    found = false
        todo_items.each do |item|
      found = true if item.name == name
      break if found
      index += 1
    end
    if found
      return index
    else
      return nil
    end
  end
end

1 Answer

Jeff Jacobson-Swartfager
Jeff Jacobson-Swartfager
15,419 Points
Jeff Jacobson-Swartfager
Jeff Jacobson-Swartfager
15,419 Points

You've almost got it! You just need to make sure that you are iterating over each of the items inside of todo_items.

Once you're doing that, you can compare the name value of the item with the name argument that is passed to the .contains? method.