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Ruby Ruby Loops Build a Simple Contact List Assigning Hash Values From Methods

Posted by cloud712
cloud712
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Could someone point out the mistake I have here? Would greatly appreciate the help!

Not sure why the push method isn't working or what the error I'm getting is pointing to. Any help is greatly appreciated!

contact.rb 
contact_list = []

contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" }

contact["name"].push(get_name)

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there, cloud712! I feel like you're overthinking this. We use the .push when we want to add an item to an array. This is a hash. As the instructions indicate, they've created a custom method elsewhere called get_name(). It's going to return a name as a string. For instance, it might return "Cloud". We just don't know. But we want to set the name to whatever it does return.

So I'm expecting:

contact["name"] = get_name()

This will call the method. The method returns a name as a string, and we assign it to the current "name" key of the hash which overwrites whatever was originally there.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

cloud712
cloud712
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thank you!