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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Arrays Adding Items to Arrays

Posted by Jason Hoffman
Jason Hoffman
5,255 Points

after answering task one, it won't let me submit task two because task one is no longer valid.

I was told that when I submitted task one it was correct, but when I submit task two, it says that task one is no longer valid, and I am not sure why.

array.rb 
grocery_list = ["milk", "eggs", "bread"]
grocery_list.push "carrots"
grocery_list.unshift = "celery"
Jason Hoffman
Jason Hoffman
5,255 Points

I see that my syntax was off when I was trying to push the new array item. Thanks for your help in responding!

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hey, no problem! :-)

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

Try using the unshift method without the equals, just like you did with the push method

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

That's not too clear but it is because you got the last line slightly wrong.

If you amend that to:

grocery_list.unshift("celery")

then that should work fine.

Steve.