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Ruby Ruby Collections Build a Grocery List Program Build a Grocery List Program: Part 1

Michael Pastran
Michael Pastran
4,727 Points
Posted by Michael Pastran
Michael Pastran
4,727 Points

add_list_item method help!!

hi i am a little confused in this part. 

def add_list_item
  print "What are the items?: "
  item_name = gets.chomp

  hash = { "name" => name }
  return hash
end

i was wondering why we create a hash with the key "name" and then the value of name. i thought we assigned name to the first hash we created in this program. i thought the code was going to look like this 

def add_list_item
  print "What are the items?: "
  item_name = gets.chomp

  hash = { "item" => item_name }
  return hash
end

thank you for any explanation.

Eric Blomberg
Eric Blomberg
14,851 Points

It's a bug that causes an error and is corrected in the next video.

Michael Pastran
Michael Pastran
4,727 Points
Michael Pastran
Michael Pastran
4,727 Points

ohhh okay, yeah i saw in the final code that it was fixed. i was really confused with that. lol thanks