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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Hash Methods

What's wrong with my code!

Help!

hash.rb
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
calories = { "calories" => 100 } final_item = grocery_item.merge("calories")

1 Answer

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

Currently you're passing in a string to merge with the hash. Just remove your quotes.

grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
calories = { "calories" => 100 } 
final_item = grocery_item.merge(calories)