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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Sanchari Bhattacharya
Sanchari Bhattacharya
Courses Plus Student 5,751 Points

Hash in ruby

grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" } if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")==true grocery_item [:"food"]="true" end The error says grocery hash is not updated

hash.rb 
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")==true
  grocery_item [:"food"]="true"
end
Andrew Rady
Andrew Rady
20,880 Points
Andrew Rady
Andrew Rady
20,880 Points

Kourosh is right. Also to add a little more, in your if statement you do not need to add "==true" for this. Using the has_value in the if state will return true so the code in the if state will run.

Here what I used to pass the challenge 

grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
  grocery_item ['food']=true
end

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

You need to remove : and the quotes around true:

grocery_item["food"] = true