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Ruby Ruby Booleans Build a Simple Todo List Program Finding Array Items

kevinthecoder
kevinthecoder
10,791 Points

Unable to complete find_index method

Wow, that's two in a row. After careful analysis, I'm still yielding nothing on this one too. What am I doing wrong? I've posted the code below.

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

2 Answers

Hi Kevin,

I already realize you put break inside if statement but make sure to add another "end" after two if statements. I double check again by reviewing our tutorial.

  def find_index(name)
    index = 0
    found = false
    todo_items.each do |todo_item|
      if todo_item.name == name
        found = true
      end
      if found
        break
      else
        index += 1
      end
    end   #missing

      if found
      return index
      else
        return nil
      end
    end 
kevinthecoder
kevinthecoder
10,791 Points

Thanks. What a struggle that one was...

Yup, we have been struggled before to figure out the problems or missings or mis-typing, it was tough but we will get better in time being. :-) However, it is essential to let other users know their similar problems near future, please mark 'best answer' if you like.