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

Tobias Jackson
Tobias Jackson
9,758 Points
Posted by Tobias Jackson
Tobias Jackson
9,758 Points

Add the grocery_item hash to the items array inside of the grocery_list hash

help?

shopping_list.rb 
grocery_list = { 'title' => 'Grocery List', 'items' => [] }
grocery_item = { 'title' => 'Bread', 'quantity' => 1 }
grocery_item['items'].push(add_grocery_list))

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Tobias,

You want to push the grocery_item onto the items array within grocery_list.

To access the array, start with: 

grocery_list['items']

Then, call push on it, passing in the grocery_item as an argument. That looks like:

grocery_list['items'].push(grocery_item)

Make sense?

Steve.