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Ruby Ruby Booleans Build a Simple Todo List Program Part 1: Write the Classes

John Bamberg
John Bamberg
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John Bamberg
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Empty Brackets?

Why the empty brackets?

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Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
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Sage Elliott
Sage Elliott
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Using empty brackets like in the video creates an empty array.

  @todo_items = []

This takes the instance variable @todo_items and sets to an empty array that can be used to store data later on.