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Ruby

Posted by Riley Hilliard
Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points

Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails: More Parameter Modification

I've been stuck on this questions for about 2 weeks now and have tried pretty much everything that would seem to make sense to me. The question is: Delete the params :status hash if it exists in the params hash.

It would make sense that they are looking for the code from the lesson which is:

if params[:status] && params[:status].has_key?(:user_id)
  params[:status].delete(:user_id)
end

however that does not delete the status param, so I tried everything from:

if params[:status].has_key?(:user_id)
  params[:status].delete(:status) 
end

to

if params[:status].has_key?(:status)
  params[:status].delete(:status) 
end

to

if params[:status].has_key?(:user_id)
  params[:status].delete(:user_id && :status) 
end

Basically I have tried everything I can think of, looked everywhere for a similar issue, and have no idea how to get around this question. Has anyone else had trouble with it?

6 Answers

Riley Hilliard
PLUS
Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points
Riley Hilliard
Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points

I was over thinking it. (seems to usually be my problem, hah.)

if params.has_key?(:status)
  params.delete(:status)
end
ecp
ecp
838 Points
ecp
ecp
838 Points

internet highfive

oxanaox
oxanaox
16,295 Points
oxanaox
oxanaox
16,295 Points

if params[:status].has_key?(:user_id) params[:status].delete(:user_id) end

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You're getting really close, Riley! The part of the hash you're trying to delete is one level up from what you've tried so far. The question is slightly different than what's in the videos.

Jennifer Fry
Jennifer Fry
9,855 Points
Jennifer Fry
Jennifer Fry
9,855 Points

Apologies for being dense, but I also had the same issue above. I entered Riley's answer above as well as

if params.has_key?(:status) params.delete(:user_id) end

and neither seems to work. Am I missing something here?