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Ruby Ruby Collections Build a Grocery List Program Working with Hashes That Contain Arrays

Posted by Sam Newby
Sam Newby
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Unable to solve Ruby Collections - Working with Hashes that contain Arrays - code challenge

Unable to solve the following code challenge which asks to add the grocery_item hash to the 'items' array within the grocery_list hash. However constantly saying unexpected curly brace.

''' grocery_list = { 'title' => 'Grocery List', 'items' => [{"grocery_item"}] } grocery_item = { 'title' => 'Bread', 'quantity' => 1 } '''

1 Answer

Claudiu Bancos
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Claudiu Bancos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,468 Points
Claudiu Bancos
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Claudiu Bancos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,468 Points 
grocery_list['items'].push(grocery_item)

Basically, you're calling the array named "items" inside of the hash named "grocery_list", and then pushing "grocery_item" (which happens to be a hash) into that array. I think that's the way the teacher intended for us to solve it.

Sam Newby
Sam Newby
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Thank you Claudiu for your help! Your code worked perfect and I understand what I was doing wrong.