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Ruby

Posted by Tessa Davis
Tessa Davis
4,152 Points

finding a value in a hash?

I'm having trouble displaying a value.

When I call @guidelines the page displays

[#<Guideline id: 25, title: "Bananas", content: "test me", hospital: "My Hospital", created_at: "2013-02-04 04:06:22", updated_at: "2013-02-07 01:37:49", user_id: 10>]

I want it to display "My Hospital"

But when I call 

@guidelines.hospital

I get 'undefined method `hospital' for #<Array:0x007f8a937a1e38>'

Have also tried

@guidelines.index(hospital)

and a few others but cannot seem to get it to work.

Can anyone help?

2 Answers

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

Hey Tessa,

The @guidelines variable is an array. You'll need to iterate over the individual items in order to access it. Try something like this:

<% @guidelines.each do |guideline| %>
  <%= guideline.hospital %>
<% end %>
Tessa Davis
Tessa Davis
4,152 Points
Tessa Davis
Tessa Davis
4,152 Points

Thanks for the reply Jason. I did manage to work this out - guideline.hospital is the same for each guideline on this page so I only wanted it printed out once. I did it as follows:

<% @guidelines.each_with_index do |guideline, index| %>
<% if index==0 %>
<%= guideline.hospital %>

<% end %>